Category Archives: Around Abbotsford

Thanks to Our Day-to-Day Heroes

With heartfelt thanks, I offer all our day-to-day heroes serving others my deepest gratitude. Continue reading

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Postcard 11: The Smallest Things

I don’t usually post live. I also don’t usually post half way into a half bottle of wine. However.

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Dolled up or Dressed down: Beautiful!

All people (not just women) express numerous things about themselves through their fashion and grooming choices. Continue reading

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Fourth Sake Rice Harvest in Abbotsford

There’s not a fair price that can be put on the sweat equity required to get this year’s rice into bags—never mind bottles. Continue reading

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The 2014 Sake Rice Crop in Abbotsford, BC

Optimistic and pragmatic, Masa Shiroki sees rice production in Canada not only as a way to use land now lying fallow, but also to take advantage of global warming. Continue reading

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Writing for a Living: Find Your Path into Professional Writing

There are great prizes–coaching and consulting sessions with working writers, as well as a one-year Student Membership in PWAC to be won–and fabulous people to meet. Continue reading

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New World Sake: Round Two

The first rice-harvesting combine in Canada (recently shipped to Abbotsford from Hokkaido) brought in the harvest destined to become the 2014 Osake Fraser Valley Junmai. Continue reading

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Saying So Long to Summer

Overhead, the geese in giant check marks underscore the realization: We are at another summer’s end. Continue reading

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Grass Blooms (Issa)

In my province grass blooms too. (Issa) Continue reading

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Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) in Abbotsford, BC

The fragile, fleeting nature of life underscores all loss in ethereal petals about to let loose on the wind. Continue reading

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