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How to Start a Garden
Last spring I decided to dig out the lawn in front of the house and start a garden for the very first time. The stay-at-home order was in effect, and no one knew how long it would last. Doing something — anything — that wasn’t confined by four white walls helped to cope with the isolation of quarantine life. It wasn’t long before I realized that digging up the lawn to prepare the garden bed was not an easy…
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Light it up
I ended off 2019 by stepping into the year 2099. Moment Factory had set up a multi-sensory night walk called Terra Lumina at the Toronto Zoo, complete with flickering lights, heavy fog, holograms of animals and hypnotic sounds to transport visitors to the future. (In this reality, an apocalypse does not happen.) Winter in Canada has a way of making you feel like you’re stuck indoors forever, so this was a great way to lure you outside. Even without the…
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California Dreaming
Mountains, water, sand and sunsets. That’s the best place to be. Oh, to be closer to the pier and palm trees of Santa Monica.
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