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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Life in the city we’d never heard of in 1990

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Dubai watercolour and marker © 1995 Charlene Brown When my husband started working for Emirates Airline, the company had two Airbus 300 ai...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

The many moves of the Seventies and Eighties…

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 Toronto, as seen from Mississauga watercolour and crayon © 2017 Charlene Brown After being transferred from Colorado back to Canada, we l...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

My first logical move

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  Ottawa watercolour, ink and marker ©2017 Charlene Brown  In the summer of 1968, the Canadian government launched a cross-country recruit...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Alberta ̶ where I lived first and where I still say I'm from

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Banff w atercolour and crayon ©2023 Charlene Brown I was born in Banff, lived there until I finished high school, and returned to work the...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

The first place I lived back in Canada

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Vancouver watercolour and crayon ©2024 Charlene Brown After leaving Australia rather suddenly, my daughter and I stayed for about a year and...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Opus Plein Air Challenge

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On location at the Gate of Harmonious Interest pencil, ink, and watercolour sketch © 2025 Charlene Brown A couple of weeks ago I participate...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Where I lived after the Big Move

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Phillip Island watercolour, crayon and marker © 2025 Charlene Brown I arrived in Australia in November, just in time for my second consecu...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Small town living after my year in the big city

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Pine Point Beach, Deep River ON watercolour and crayon ©2025 Charlene Brown A job offer at the Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories brought ab...