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(not exactly) a dad joke
Read more: (not exactly) a dad jokeI don’t remember very many of my dad’s jokes. He wasn’t the “dad joke” type. There is one, though, that I remember him telling me and my younger sister when we were kids, sitting in the car, as he drove past a cemetery on a rural highway (likely in the Laurentians). Okay, here goes, please…
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I am a (temporary) no-go zone
Read more: I am a (temporary) no-go zoneIn December 2023 (for the post, “the sofa bed and sleepovers“), I did a tally of family and close friends from out of town that had visited me since I moved into my place in Montréal in February 2022. I landed on a count of 21, an average of one for each month. I will…
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the May long weekend
Read more: the May long weekendIs the May long weekend the best long weekend of the year in Canada? Quite possibly, according to the opening editorial that arrived in my email this morning for the Canadian edition of The Conversation — “academic rigour, journalistic flair” is their tag line (check it out, it’s also available en français). I am biased…
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