All Winter, I kept waiting for snow. I felt like we hadn't really had Winter and I wasn't ready for it to be Spring yet, because no snow. All the suburbs around me had had snow, bit at my place, snow drops and daffodils were blooming! We had rain and lovely cozy Wintry days, but …
The Only Good Indians is the story of four indigenous men who went on an illegal elk hunt on their reservation when they were teens and set off a chain of events that stayed with them for ten years. Now, they have all gone in different directions, some staying, some moving away, some settling, some …
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Ada is a mysterious girl who lives apart with her father near a villiage who come to them for their healing arts. Ada and her father are able to put people to sleep and open them up, removing illness and disease, and sometimes they even bury them for a time in the strange Ground that …
Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC "Flakes, flurries, whirls, crystals. Whatever it comes in, I'll take it. We go back, snow and me. We have a beautiful history." - Gilmore Girls. As Lorelei knows, there's something magical about snow. This is our first year in Canada, and we didn't think we would get any snow, but this …
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It's been just over a month since we touched down in Vancouver, BC. I'm sitting in my armchair, sipping a cup of tea from Fortnum and Mason that I packed, and typing on my laptop table, while Grimoire the cat dozes in the next room, and my boyfriend is deep in a game online with …
London is often called a green city, because although it's very densely populated and built up, it's also got some truly lovely large parks and gardens. One of the smaller gardens is in Chelsea, and contains the second oldest botanical garden in the UK. Chelsea Physick Garden was established in 1673, and remains to this …
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Flowers are everything. If you spend any time on Instagram you will see them featured in many posts. What is it about them that makes us feel so uplifted and happy? Why are they such a symbol of love and care? Of decadence? I'm not entirely sure, but I love them, and these beauties featured …
This beautiful, sorrowful book tells the story of a man raised by wolves, and the woman that rescues him when he's taken into the mental health system. Robin is still reeling from her split from her philandering cop husband and starting over with her teenage son in their home town, when she happens one day …
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