Reading Phyllis Gotlieb's Flesh and Gold. A striking book that, as one of the blurbs on its cover states, deserves a wider readership. Phyllis is considered by many to be the First Lady of Canadian Science Fiction. I am an Ursula K. LeGuin fan; I hope Phyllis doesn't mind if I suggest that she is our Canadian LeGuin, by which I mean that she is strikingly original with a literary bent.
Took my daughters swimming last week... they're in swimming lessons every Saturday. I was impressed when they got changed entirely by themselves in the change room (they're four years old). Out by the pool, a woman remarked, "Did you know one of your daughter's has her swimming suit on backwards?" I looked, and sure enough, Erin had her suit on backwards. It was, shall we say, a bit low in the front. Very risque, I told her. I said, do you want to turn it around? She said, "No, I do not."
You pick your battles. I decided it probably didn't matter very much at the age of four. Here's hoping we get it sorted out before she's a teen-ager...
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