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Slow Ride to Healing

September 11, 2020by Marilyn Iwama 7 Comments

Five-year island cut to 2.5. Cut to Squamish, BC where I come to holding a bag full of didn’t plan on that and a sweetheart who has survived a crash. […]

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Marathon, or Just One More Walk?

December 16, 2015by Marilyn Iwama Leave a comment

All I need is 32 kms to meet today’s goal. The last thing I want is to walk by the bases after today. When the jets fly over, Chelsey says, […]

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Like a Snowbird

Journeying Mercies

December 11, 2015by Marilyn Iwama 6 Comments

Dad was a careful guy. On a road trip, he’d only start the car after he prayed for journeying mercies. Dad stayed debt free until he bought a house once I’d […]

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What a Mess can be Made

December 7, 2015by Marilyn Iwama 2 Comments

This turtle came with me on today’s walk. I found it yesterday morning when I took some torpor to the beach for a shakeup. The turtle sprawled there, about three feet […]

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Like a Snowbird

Walk South, Bus North

December 7, 2015by Marilyn Iwama 4 Comments

If you’re anything like me, from day to day you don’t know where you’ll wake up. You find yourself in a room where shadows are only bats trick-bombing a street […]

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Blogging 101-4: Identify Your Audience

August 13, 2015by Marilyn Iwama 8 Comments

My ideal reader? Sympathetic, encouraging, daring. What I’d like to be. What my mother was, even when I griped about her being critical and self-centred and (worst of all) careful. […]

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Who I am and why I’m here: Blogging 101

August 11, 2015by Marilyn Iwama 6 Comments

Before today I blogged by trial and error, the way I learned to ride a bike. Talk about pressure. Now here I am, registered at Blogging U, relieved to have […]

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About the Island

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You an Ethnobotanist

June 26, 2015by Marilyn Iwama Leave a comment

I’m an ethnobotanist studying screw pines. Sounds as convincing as the lie about writing poetry. Get out look out I tell myself. It’s too easy to go crazy inside your […]

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Mimi on the Beach

Leaving, Day Four

June 1, 2015by Marilyn Iwama 1 Comment

Thing is, leaving is nothing less than arriving. And vice versa. You leave and there you are, landing somewhere. And you can’t arrive until you leave. Every coming and going […]

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Leaving, Day 3.5

May 31, 2015by Marilyn Iwama 3 Comments

Shirataki ryokan again: 5000, sleep only. By now I know it’s too early for check in but I open the door and call out, tadaima (I’m home)! Ii desuka? The innkeeper […]

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