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The Passage closes for a long summer walk 27 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm
As usual, the Passage closes for July and August, re-opening September 3. I'll be moving more and spending less time at a keyboard, a choice I find ever more important for all dimensions of health. ....
Montréal People: A penultimate perambulation 26 Jun 2013 | 12:07 am
Penultimate is defined as "the next to the last" and today's is the next-to-last post for the summer, for which the Passage traditionally shutters. Since you like to people-watch and requested more s...
Elderhood: Preparing from the head and the heart 20 Jun 2013 | 05:40 pm
I have friends counting the months till retirement, and others who cringe at the word. The former group have lists of projects put off till this day, the latter love what they do so want to keep at it...
La collectionneuse 18 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm
Recent posts here and there remind me how many of us collect whatever: vintage film posters, good-luck Japanese cats, bakelite, old tools. I've had my collector moments. Around age 25, I indulged in ...
Looking private jet, flying economy 13 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm
T, The New York Times Style Magazine, incites a bizarre, unslakable lust for an unknown stratosphere of luxury, at least for a couple of minutes. I try to use the content as inspiration rather than be...
Mabés: Shimmer on the half-shell 11 Jun 2013 | 04:00 pm
June is pearl month on the birthstone calendar, and also time for sepcial-occasion gifts such asgraduations and weddings, so I'm back with a bonus pearl post about a specific variety, the mabé pearl. ...
Slow train to the fast city 6 Jun 2013 | 08:28 pm
When we traveled to New York several weeks ago, we took the Amtrak Adirondack, heralded as one of the world's ten most beautiful train rides. The 500km trip takes...eleven hours. Seventy-five to nine...
What to wear to a wedding when a little dress won't do 4 Jun 2013 | 05:52 pm
Lorrie is attending a wedding in Chicago next month. She's longtime friend of the bride's mother, two daughters, and their stepfather. "I went to their youngest's wedding last September", she said, "...
The expat's angst 30 May 2013 | 05:57 pm
I spent time with a group of American newcomers to Montréal recently; all were women, most in their early thirties. The coffee klatch turned out to be a session of unmitigated complaint. That's a com...
Pearls: Sea of (Cortez) love 28 May 2013 | 04:00 pm
I met my first Sea of Cortez pearl in a tiny boutique, now long gone; the jeweler Beni Sung displayed every kind of pearl, each held high on top of a long pin, like a Victorian hat pin, with a little ...
