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Thoughts on love

Today you may wonder if I’ve lost my marbles. Thoughts on love? Not the usual fare at A Writer of History. So, here’s the story. Two weeks ago, we were at

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The Joy of Reinventing Yourself

Eleven years ago, I moved to Hong Kong with my husband who had taken on a three-year international assignment. The early weeks were of the world-is-my-oyster variety as I explored

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What is grief?

A recent reading of Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk prompts the question: What is grief? Macdonald’s grief at the sudden death of her father is overwhelming and all encompassing.

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A Festival of Movies

Most of you know how much I read, however, today’s post is about blitzing on movies, a phenomenon my husband and I enjoy every September courtesy of the Toronto International

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Writing is like no other career

Walking from the kitchen where I had just had breakfast to my office (OK, it’s a bedroom with an alcove for a desk), a thought struck me: writing is like no other job I’ve

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Hermit or Cocooning?

  During a three-year expat assignment in Hong Kong, I had a lot of time to myself. Time to discover not only the completely foreign world I then lived in, but

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Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History

Dear readers – this post is definitely outside my normal fare, however, I felt the need to comment in some way on Canada’s recently released Truth and Reconciliation Commission report, a damning

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Blog Interrrupted

Hello friends … a quick note to say that the last two weeks have been more than challenging with family responsibilities and as such I haven’t been able to write

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