A sparkling Cendrillon at the Grands Ballets (2 june 2023)
Montréal's Les Grands Ballets are luminous in Cendrillon, with choreography by the Australian Jayne Smeulders along set to Prokofiev's score.
Montréal
4100 to 6000 unmarked child graves: truth and reconciliation after 7 years
In anticipation of Truth and Reconciliation Day, I read this week for the first time the book 21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph, published in 2018.
Avenue Mont-Royal has become a beautiful garden 😍
A portion of a major avenue near me has been transformed into a community garden full of herbs, veggies, and fruits, and it's wonderful.
Drink tea and read ALL the books 2019.12.15
Split Tooth, Lettres en forêt urbaine, All Systems Red, Les brutes et la punaise, and more: there have been so many good books read this year!
A serene moment at Salon de thé Cha Do Raku
ANNOUNCEMENT: I HAVE FOUND A NEW FAVOURITE TEA SHOP!!!
Five Finds at the Festival BD de Montréal
Leif and I were taking advantage of the sun in La Fontaine park when we stumbled upon the Festival BD de Montréal. So here are the 5 BDs that I found on Saturday!
Brief assortment of interesting stuff — 15th of March 2019
This week: a post-apocalyptic novel by Aliette de Bodard in the ruins of Paris, the ethics of mining trauma for literature by Lindsay Nixon, the inimitable Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom, a critical look at IWD in Québec by Émilie Nicholas in Le Devoir, and more!
Finding Our Cat Luna
A mere 24 hours after I wrote my previous blog post about losing Luna, we found her under a full moon. Here's how the saga ended: happily!
Losing Luna (Hopefully Temporarily)
Last Friday, our cat Luna fell off the balcony and disappeared into the night somewhere in The Plateau of Montréal. And some people are being asses about it.
