Late-breaking Sima news:
Hebrew language rights have been sold!
Sima has been shortlisted for the City of Victoria Butler Prize!
Back-to-school Clinical-intensive-at-UBC news:
Orca whale sighting on my ferry commute!
And finally: results are in from the Duo Tang challenge:
Several Canadians emailed me about my spelling of Duo Tang. A PhD in Canadian Literature gently explained (well, actually she called [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2009’
Newsflash
Back to work
Heading into Vancouver to start off my final year of school with typical mix n’ match: this evening I’ll be meeting with a book club about Sima, and then tomorrow begins another clinical intensive. I’m feeling all out of sorts about leaving the girls–I’m only in Vancouver until Friday, but I know it’s going to [...]
The end of summer
It’s a cool September day, and I’m home in Victoria.
Glory be, and thank goodness for the end of summer.
Because my kids are covered in scabbed-over mosquito bites.
Because when I unpacked our luggage, sand spilled onto the floor.
Because my neck aches from other people’s too-puffy pillows.
Because it took forever to bury Ted Kennedy, and summer ended there [...]