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COVID-19: the first six months

I had a haircut scheduled. Fiona was supposed to be doing her driving road test in a few days. It was March 17th, 2020. A week later my hair was longer than ever, and it would continue to grow for

Miranda October 3, 2020October 5, 2020 Being active, Family Matters, Gardening, Moving on, Parenting, The Natural World, Travel 1 Comment

My big kid’s big job

Erin was poised to finish her Masters in Violin Performance at New England Conservatory this past May. We anticipated that she would eventually land a full-time orchestra position, but the classical music world being what it is, we knew that

Miranda October 16, 2018October 16, 2018 Main, Moving on, Music education, Travel 2 Comments

Will school ever be the whole story?

Although she’s only equivalent to Grade 9 by age and this semester is taking three academic Grade 12 courses, school has ended up being fairly unchallenging for Fiona. She picked up a DL Spanish course in October to fill her

Miranda December 5, 2017December 5, 2017 Being active, Moving on, Music education, School, Travel 3 Comments

Big summers

The big kids had big summers this year. We knew Erin’s would be big. She had been offered a Tanglewood fellowship. This meant spending the summer in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts playing in an amazing orchestra and performing at the

Miranda September 6, 2017 Moving on, School, Travel No Comments

A New School Year

First we drove Erin to Spokane. She flew out of the airport there with two giant suitcases (weighing 49.5 and 50.0 lbs respectively), her heavy messenger bag (carrying all the stuff that she unpacked from her suitcases to get them down

Miranda September 4, 2016September 10, 2016 Main, Moving on, Travel No Comments

Hughes Reunion

We rented an island. We were looking for a cottage that slept at least 14 comfortably, somewhere within half a day’s drive of both Toronto and Ottawa. And the island was what we found. Actually, my mom rented it, as

Miranda August 29, 2016 Family Matters, Travel No Comments

Accomplishments

Over the past few years the focus of my blog (well, it’s arguable whether it has any focus at all) has moved away from the specifics of what my children are up to. That’s been the natural result of them

Miranda April 15, 2016July 2, 2016 Main, Mathematics, Moving on, Music education, School, Travel 3 Comments

2015 Loop

Last year I carved some time out of July to do a self-powered trip along the Silvery Slocan Circle Route. I did it counter-clockwise over three days, combining kayaking, running and road-biking. This year, with a new-to-me road bike recently acquired,

Miranda September 16, 2015 Being active, The Natural World, Travel 4 Comments

Summer, here and gone

It was an early summer. The trees were greening up a good 3-4 weeks earlier than usual, and the season continued to unfurl early. The lake got “warm” (as warm as it ever does) in June. The wildfires were burning

Miranda September 2, 2015February 3, 2016 Being active, Family Matters, Main, Music education, Travel No Comments

Getting around

Here’s our minivan. We bought it about 18 months ago and it transformed my driving experience. It made access to alpine hikes a breeze. Road trips and drive-in movies were awesome. I loved not having to hike in from the

Miranda October 8, 2014February 3, 2016 Being active, Living simply, Main, Travel No Comments

Almost a circle

So here’s how I felt on the third morning: revolting. Jittery, feverish and nauseated. The first day was amazing. I had rented a kayak from Smiling Otter in Slocan (my paddling destination) and brought it home the night before, depositing

Miranda July 23, 2014July 23, 2014 Being active, Running, The Natural World, Travel 1 Comment

Courtesy of the wayback machine

The other night I was looking for some content from my personal website back in the late 1990s that someone had requested. It was two computers ago, hosted on a different ISP, and long gone from my files. But I

Miranda March 11, 2014February 3, 2016 Main, Travel No Comments

Hamill Creek Backpacking

As part of her learning about backcountry survival skills, Fiona wanted to plan a self-supported backpacking trip. Ten days later than we had originally hoped, having missed the glorious summery early September weather, we headed out. Fully laden, we wanted

Miranda September 21, 2013September 20, 2018 Being active, Main, The Natural World, Travel

End-of-summer road trip

End-of-summer road trip

We flew Erin out of Kelowna to go back to school. Kelowna is less expensive from a flight standpoint — and much more reliable in the winter, when the Cancelgar airport earns its unendearing nickname — but it involves eight or

Miranda September 1, 2013February 3, 2016 Main, Travel No Comments

40th Anniversary SSSG Trip

This year was the 40th anniversary of the Suzuki program I grew up in. The program back “home,” in Ontario, a place I left in 1981, where none of us lived for a while but where my sister and my

Miranda May 6, 2013February 3, 2016 Main, Music education, Travel
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