I choose gingerbread!
Peppermint or Gingerbread?
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Science World On a Rainy Friday Night
It was rainy with high cloud when I took this on a bike ride home. The light was gobbled up by the dark and the visability across the water was great in spite of the rain. I loved the way Science World looked.
Tree Lights @ BC Nurses’ Union
Driving home I saw these lights and had to take a picture.
October 2025 Reads
Abeni’s Song
I’ve loved everything I’ve read in P. Djèlí Clark’s Dead Djinn Universe, and Ring Shout was a singular reading experience. Abeni’s Song was like a classic fairy tale with some Studio Ghibli whimsy thrown in. Enjoyable, though not a page-turner.
The City of Stardust
The story was interesting; I wanted to know the ending. For me, …
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Saturday Morning Cartoons!
There is at least one thing uniting a large swath of Baby Boomers, Gen X’ers, and Millennials: Saturday morning cartoons! Our go-to cartoons might be different, but we all fondly remember that glorious morning of animated goodness that only came once a week.
When I saw the Rio Theatre’s ad for “The Saturday Morning All-You-Can Cereal Cartoon Party” it was …
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Back to Reading
Reading used to be my go-to activity when I had nothing else to do. With social media, on-demand TV, and the internet it’s harder to have nothing to do. I fell out of the habit of reading. Last year I made an effort to get back into regular reading.
It’s been wonderful. Science fiction/fantasy is much richer than I remember …
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Cool duck!
I got this little guy at the 2025 Pinoy Festival last month. It was going to be a gift. I clipped it to my key holder so it wouldn’t get lost and, well, I don’t want to give it away! Every time I see it I smile.
Stanley Park Loop and South False Creek Ride
I thought I was going to get rained on, but I got lucky.
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Set in London, it tells the tale of the twelve gods of Mount Olympus living in a rundown flat as their powers wane.
— Gods Behaving Badly, Wikipedia
Gods Behaving Badly was a tasty, fast snack. I read it in a single sitting and it hit the spot. No new story takes for me (though it might have had in …
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What Moves the Dead
What Moves the Dead, by T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon), is a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic horror, The Fall of the House of Usher. There’s an added character or two, an explanation for Roderick and Madeline’s demise, and a few genuinely creepy scenes involving hares and mushrooms.
The beginning was the fun, the middle a bit slow, …
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