Author Archives: Isabel Gibson

It’s Official

I have become my mother. Continue reading →

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It’s Formal

Charles is King. Now what? Continue reading →

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The Paving Stones of Good Intentions

Gardening follies. Continue reading →

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Spring Runoff

The photo, the video, and the thing itself. They’re all good, but they’re not all the same. Continue reading →

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My Whole Life

I am a one-kid illustration for glump. glump: to look glum: FROWN Sitting at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the half of our storey-and-a-half house in Edmonton, my head hangs, my shoulders slump. Can you blame … Continue reading →

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See That?

Random images from a month in Myrtle Beach. Sometimes a photo is just a photo. Continue reading →

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A Poem as Lovely as a Tree

Without the, you know, poem, but with the lovely tree. Continue reading →

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Unpredictably Predictable

My last 2023 visit to Huntington Beach State Park last week was much like all the others, this year and other years: Wonderfully predictable and unpredictable. Predictable in the generalities; unpredictable in the specifics. Predictable: Seeing alligators. Unpredictable: Seeing so … Continue reading →

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Feeling Ahead

A creative tension? Perhaps. Continue reading →

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