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Oct.14.2012
Edith Nicholson, dressed as the Commandant of the Canadian Red Cross in WWII. (Funny they used the term Commandant. I knew I had this picture, but I thought it was a portrait. But it looks looks like a snapshot and she looks worried. (Humans worry. If they don't have a war to worry about,...
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Oct.12.2012
Last night I went to the cinema, to see a theatre play on tape (I assume it was on tape) part of the National Theatre Live series coming out the UK.
I dragged my son, who happened by, as his girlfriend wanted to visit her granny in the City.
So I didn't have to drive and that'...
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Oct.08.2012
Ikea tulips, Woolworth's vase.
A Postmedia news story making the rounds this Thanksgiving is asking the urgent question: Will Canadian decorating tastes go American, now that Pottery Barn has arrived in Canada?
Who says the news media isn't doing some responsible reporting?
I know...
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Oct.05.2012
Emmeline Pankhurst beings whisked away at a suffrage demonstration in the UK.
In 1909, Miss. Hurlbatt addressed a women's club in Montreal. Edith Nicholson may have attended. She certainly will in my book Flo in the City. Miss Hurlbatt was warden of Royal Victoria College Montreal ....
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Oct.05.2012
I live in a country suburb and the trees are so overgrown on my property that, in summer, it's gloomy in my house. We are not allowed to cut any trees down; we can only trim their lower branches.
We had a mild winter last year, a kind of drought with very little snow, and a warm spring and...
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Oct.02.2012
I watched the movie Cactus Flower yesterday. My husband saw it and taped it for me. After almost 30 years he's beginning to know my tastes.
"Cactus Flower is on TCM," I told him as he was flipping through the grid.
"I know. I am taping it for you."
And then I...
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Sep.29.2012
A futuristic living room.
My husband and I were discussing the BBC Radio 4 Great Lives episode on Philip K. Dick, which we both recently listened to.
I've read some of Philip K. Dick, years ago. My husband is familiar with the movies made of his work.
"He lived in...
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Sep.28.2012
Here's an overhead view of a French-sounding place
that really is in North Yorkshire, Rievaulx. Above is a snip of a street
and here's the remnants of its famous Abbey. I got this off a YouTube video. Surreal to see the abbey with grass on...
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Sep.28.2012
(My spur of the moment Still Life With Lettuce Leaves and Plastic Wrap. The lettuce, in this case, is organic from the local farmer's market (going brown after 5 days) the plastic wrap is from Costco. And see that slice of processed cheese? Individually wrapped it is, Also from...
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Sep.25.2012
I took the plunge and put a few videos on YouTube, which isn't hard if registered here on Blogger.
I wanted to post the songs of Gary Jewell.
You know, years ago, when the kids were tiny, and we were exhausted all the time, if I wanted to get my husband to start a job, like peeling ugly old paper...
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Sep.16.2012
A video I made in promotion of my ebook Diary of a Confirmed Spinster.
Redroom doesn't allow videos, for free so you can find it here on my Blogger account. http://flointhecity-aworkinprogress.blogspot.ca/2012/09/spinsters-and-bachelorettes.html
My husband has dyslexia. It was five...
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Sep.16.2012
All Sails Set is the the third book of the Canadian Reading Development Series, used in the 40's to the 70's, all across Canada to teach school children to read and to promote Canadian nationalism.
I've written posts about Bunga of Malaya, the first story in the Geography book...
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Sep.15.2012
I've written a fair bit about Venuses on this blog, modern and antique. But this artwork at the Tate in London caught my eye.
Venus deciding what to wear in a day and age where clothes are cheap. There's no basket, so she's not doing laundry.
Who does laundry anymore, clothes are so cheap. You...
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Sep.14.2012
It was such a glorious day, out of this world, really, so I decided to go walking in my large peaceful garden and I noticed that the little apple tree in the back, that is merely a remnant of a bigger one that toppled in a storm last year, had one solitary apple on it.
A big apple, too. The other...
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Sep.09.2012
If you want to self-publish a book today, all you do is write it and put it online.
That's what I did with School Marms and Suffragettes, my story about 3 Canadian women in the 1910 era, based on real letters. It has three parts: Threshold Girl, about 19 year old...
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—A Certain Editor
About Dorothy
I've worked in radio, television, advertising and P.R. and studied communications at McGill University, so it's no wonder that "the media" is always a character in my writing.
I've published many essays and Op-Eds over the years on women's issues....
Dorothy’s Favorite Books
Poisonwood Bible; the Taxi Queue; the English Patient; Alias Grace; Nella Last's War etc.