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Travel: New York in November
It’s been nearly a year since we left the country last, but after six months of plotting and planning our long awaited return to Manhattan finally rolled into view on the calendar. Whatever else, it might give me some things to write about here over the coming week or two as I settle back into…
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Travel: Galaxy’s Edge
It’s May the Fourth, which nerds and geeks like me all around the world celebrate as Star Wars Day in honour of the forty-fiver year old film franchise created by George Lucas and now recently owned and enhanced by Disney. Four months ago, almost to the day, I was having a different sort of Star…
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Saturday Sketchy: Vacation Artist
The weeks before Christmas were a flurry of packages arriving on our doorstep. Avoiding crowds and malls we’d done much of our shopping online, tho less shopping than usual overall. Not all those packages were gifts, however. I’d snuck an order of some sketch supplies into my incoming parcels, including a fresh moleskine watercolour book…
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ohhhh … ‘merica
I’ve been thinking about our recent trip to (and back from) Florida and how it fits into the core context of this blog … because, frankly, it doesn’t much, really. I mean, I ran. I raced in three official races with start lines and medals and free bananas at the end and everything. This, of…