Wise Woman Travel

Exploring the world from a female perspective

The little blonde girl and her littler, blonder brother are running hand in hand down the ramp of the Tropical Pavilion at the Muttart Conservatory. With six-year-old authority, she tells him, “And pretty soon it’s going to get a flower. And then it will stink like dead bodies!” Her face and voice light up with …

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1. Waking up in the morning will be olfacto-licious… In ocean-absent, oil and gas-present Alberta, I don’t really smell any natural aromas from October to April (exceptions:  our scorched Hallowe’en Jack-o-lantern right after I blow out its candle , and our unfashionable live Christmas tree before it dries up and becomes a fire hazard). So every …

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