I like to think of myself as a versatile person. I am decently well-travelled and have been from a young age. I have eaten strange things and smiled politely about them. I have slept in cars, in planes, on floors, and in closets. I can adapt. So when Peter and I were trying to decide… Continue reading City Kid in the Country
What do you do when the day is sunny and you have new hiking boots to break in? You find a mountain to climb! Yesterday was a beautiful day, particularly joyous after a grey sort of Saturday (it was too cloudy to see the so-called "supermoon", which was disappointing). So Peter and I packed a… Continue reading A Sunday at Harrison
I'm no photographer. I just take pictures. And even that's a relatively new endeavour. I have a decent but not at all fancy camera and lately I've started using it a lot more. I'm learning a few things. When I first moved to the island, more than 7 years ago, I would wander through Chinatown… Continue reading Looking for the beautiful…
Yesterday Peter and I took off for an afternoon adventure. The sky was blue, the weather was crisply cold and there was a park nearby that we hadn't visited yet. The park is called Island 22 and is very much not an island. I can say this as someone who lived on an island for… Continue reading Island, n., Piece of land surrounded by water
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