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Wishes for my mother
If my mother were still here, on her 95th birthday today I'd wish ...
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News, thoughts, finds – and the odd rant
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Notre-Dame de Paris – Carpe Diem
“Next time.” Throughout the month I lived in Paris in 2015, every day that I walked past Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris and eyed the lineups, I thought, next time I’m here I’ll explore it. Next Read more
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Teachable moments in Trump’s America
On Nick Sandmann, Nathan Phillips, and coming of age in Trump's America: In my own childhood and adolescence, I said things and did things that can still fill me with shame when, decades later, I remember. I’ll bet that you did, too.
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Photo challenge: accepted
When my younger photographer son challenged me to take a 52-week photography challenge, I accepted. Gulp.
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Ambushed by mega millions
So that's how one is sucked into a rabbit hole, by America's $1.6 billion US mega millions lottery draw.
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Vancouver’s ‘Giants’ invite play
The colourful Oceans industrial plant in Vancouver's heart seems less about concrete than playful illusion.
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Donna Strickland, woman wizard (and Nobel laureate)
Donna Strickland, a leader in the science of ultrafast lasers, joins the tiny, tiny, tiny cohort of women who have won the Nobel in physics.
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Found in translation
Despite my Swiss-cheese memory and tongue of clay, I am trying to learn a few essential words in the languages of the people I encounter daily.
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Gastown Grand Prix
The Gastown Grand Prix on a sunny evening, with cobblestones lighted by glaring late sun or cast in dark shade by tall buildings, was a fun playground to experiment with the photo challenges of the contrast of blinding light and deep shade, and intense speed.