Favourite Finds on the Highway Home

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Things I love about my home town: The big, beautiful Columbia River. Mountains. Everywhere. The Odeon (now Royal) Theatre The Italian food The smell of Syringas in June The big old churches That my childhood house is still standing That my mother’s childhood house is still standing The Italian food The dusty alleyways with neighbourhood [...]

Holding Onto the Apron Strings

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What is it about aprons? I have a huge stash of them behind my laundry-room door – and I bet you do, too. Somewhere.  There’s a down-hominess to wearing an apron, especially if you pair it with gumboots – or better still pyjamas! There’s also a kind of built-in efficiency that comes with strapping one [...]