Category Archives: New Perspectives

A potluck of musings: What else to do with insights on birding gained from parenting reminiscences?

OK, Buttercup: You’re Up

Posted on 27 September 2023 by Isabel Gibson

Who knew air took up so much space? Continue reading →

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An Approximation? Exactly!

Posted on 14 July 2023 by Isabel Gibson

A reliable memory? Maybe just the approximation of one. Continue reading →

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Your Place or Mine?

Posted on 08 July 2023 by Isabel Gibson

Thinking about borders: what they matter to, what they don’t. Continue reading →

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An At-home Failure

Posted on 29 June 2023 by Isabel Gibson

What’s changed in the world since the Edmonton Elks last won at home? Not enough. Continue reading →

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Remember When? No.

Posted on 10 June 2023 by Isabel Gibson

The things we just, you know, know. Who knows how? Continue reading →

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My Whole Life

Posted on 21 April 2023 by Isabel Gibson

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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And Now This

Posted on 11 March 2023 by Isabel Gibson

Dispatches from the road … Continue reading →

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Socks, Pairs and Spares

Posted on 02 March 2023 by Isabel Gibson

Hard-done-by or not? You be the judge. Continue reading →

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Bread Alone

Posted on 03 February 2023 by Isabel Gibson

More fun and games with all good/bad. Continue reading →

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