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New Year, New Dreams: May 2014
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New Year, New Dreams. Looking to new adventures in travel, style and living. Friday, May 30, 2014. Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option (I like this, I really like this). Maya Angelou died on Wednesday. She had such a rich and varied life. She was the wise woman of our time. She was so right on so many issues. I had never heard the "priority" quote until after her death but it sure would have saved a lot of tears. A few months ago, I read the book Lean In. As a girl, I want...
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New Year, New Dreams: February 2015
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New Year, New Dreams. Looking to new adventures in travel, style and living. Saturday, February 28, 2015. Sometimes Things Just Go Wrong. View from my hotel. The Aztecs hosted Hernan Cortés in this house. He turned out to be a bad guest. What can a woman do? The zócalo is a very big square. The patient Hampton Suites employee and I set out in search of a third hotel The Central Zócalo. It is difficult when these misadventures occur but I am safe and getting used to Mexico City. Saturday, February 21, 2015.
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New Year, New Dreams: March 2014
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New Year, New Dreams. Looking to new adventures in travel, style and living. Saturday, March 29, 2014. What You Need to Know about Paris Apartments. My desk in Paris. I love living in an apartment in Paris! I am a literary, eclectic Romantic and I have always dreamed of living the life of Simone de Beauvoir or of Mavis Gallant : reading, writing, drinking coffee and wine in the neighbourhood café and smoking Gitanes. ( I don't smoke at all but it was part of the fantasy). There are several bars on our st...
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New Year, New Dreams: March 2015
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New Year, New Dreams. Looking to new adventures in travel, style and living. Monday, March 30, 2015. A Very Busy Oaxaca Weekend. Glyph at Monte Albán. The Zapotecs were one of the earliest civilizations in the Americas. The Fería del Tejate at Huyapam. It was so fascinating to see all the different tejates and the colourful costumes of the vendors. Unfortunately, I have tried tejate before and I'm really not that much of a fan. Beto, Mari and me. Were passed down through families. Very powerful union...
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New Year, New Dreams: December 2014
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New Year, New Dreams. Looking to new adventures in travel, style and living. Saturday, December 13, 2014. Brighter Skies at Home. Grey cape with blue skies on Friday. When I retired three years ago, Monsieur was still working and was only playing music from time to time. He has since joined two bands and is singing occasionally. There are regular rehearsals and much of Monsieur's life is involved with his music. On CBC Radio's Ideas. So my challenge in the new year is to try to find more engaging activit...
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New Year, New Dreams: May 2015
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New Year, New Dreams. Looking to new adventures in travel, style and living. Saturday, May 30, 2015. A glyph at Monte Albán. It is two weeks since I returned home from Oaxaca. It always takes me a bit of time to readjust and Monsieur has lived 10 weeks without me. Our ways of being are quite different and the return home is always a challenge for both of us. French literature is my passion! The West Coast of Canada was not a very cosmopolitan place at that time. Paris windows are works of art. It's not a...
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New Year, New Dreams: January 2015
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New Year, New Dreams. Looking to new adventures in travel, style and living. Thursday, January 15, 2015. Les Intouchables, Paris and Random Thoughts. I watched Intouchables,. Does everyone have a picture from behind the d'Orsay clock? My brother probably took hundreds of pictures. Poetry on a wall. There are always new questions to ask, new ideas to think about…. Sunday, January 11, 2015. The Jewish quarter in Paris. I believe that the shootings and the acts of terrorism are the works of fanatical young ...
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New Year, New Dreams: May Musings
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New Year, New Dreams. Looking to new adventures in travel, style and living. Saturday, May 9, 2015. May is usually time for me to return home to Vancouver. Since I have retired, I have spent the early spring months away from home. Summer is a lovely time at home and we are lucky to have an outdoor and an indoor swimming pool at my apartment complex. Lithography workshop on my street. A taco stand on a nearby corner. The squares and plazas are colourful with pedlars and blossoms. In Oaxaca, there is no ne...