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Powell's Books
Powell’s Books in Portland lived up to its reputation as an excellent independent bookstore. I only had a short time to browse its stacks, but I quickly found four interesting books to bring home with me.
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All the Stations–Ireland
Vicki Pipe and Geoff Marshall, who visited every railway station in England, Scotland and Wales in 2017, are back this week with All the Stations–Ireland.Episode One is online now; it covers their...
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"Everybody looks like they have a beard..."
Prince Edward Island has moved to a system of having driver’s licenses produced by an off-Island company (historically they were produced in-house at the Access PEI site, while you waited).The change...
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Karla Bernard for District 12 (or How I Became Green)
I am not naturally a joiner of things, a quality that has mostly kept me out of party politics.As a teenager I did some volunteering for a local Liberal candidate, and in my 20s I managed the campaign...
View ArticleThe Price of Somewhere Else
Jason Kottke, in The Rise of the Fast Food Veggie Burger, writes:A meat burger that costs a dollar is just being paid for in other ways by someone or something else.That reminds of something I heard...
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A Walk in the Woods with Oysters
In addition to reviewing analytics, planning future projects, and solving perplexing technical issues, today’s work schedule here in New Hampshire included a walk in Shieling Forest with my Yankee...
View ArticleMy Son the Campaign Button Maker
Oliver has volunteered for three days in a row at provincial Green Party headquarters at the campaign button-making machine.He is a dynamo.If your coat sports a button supporting a Green Party...
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I Got Soul and Vision
Hertz’s “take any car you want” lottery served me well this time, presenting a shiny red Kia Soul front and centre as we entered the lot. It is a zippy car, pleasantly roomy, with friendly...
View ArticleAll-you-can-Eat Ice Cream Parlors and Heroin
In my mid-twenties I was lucky enough to find myself immersed in a midwifery milieu, party to daily conversations about umbilical cords and breast latching and hospital transport. It was as good an...
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Find your Green Candidate
In my spare evening hours here in New Hampshire this week I worked on a “Find your Green Candidate” widget for the Green Party campaign website.This turned out not to be a trivial thing do to, in part...
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They Say It's My Birthday (Again)
On the road from Dublin, NH to home, the slow way.Tonight I’m in Salem, MA trying to effect a small birthday celebration for myself: fish tacos and beer, and a movie at what might be the world’s...
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"Adventures of a Canadian Tea Lady in London"
My friend Andrea writes about her experiences working as a tea lady in 1990s London.
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Two Salems and a Book Sale
There are, it turns out, two places in New England named Salem, one in New Hampshire and one in Massachusetts.I learned this on Saturday morning when I woke up in the wrong one.My plan for the day was...
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Where Islanders Vote
I have been immersed in election geography this week, and by way of procrastinating I made this visualization that connects every address on Prince Edward Island to its polling station on election...
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Gave Red, Got Green
At my monthly plasma donation this afternoon they went to put blue wrap around my arm just before I was done.“You don’t have any green wrap do you?”, I asked.They did. So that’s what I got.It was a...
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We Made A Voter!
Oliver will vote in his first Provincial General Election this month. Raising an engaged, curious citizen, who takes his franchise seriously, is the greatest thing Catherine and I have ever done.Oliver...
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Sledgehammer
Until today I’d had an election sign on my lawn twice in my lifetime.The first time was short-lived: as a teenager I signed up to have a sign on the lawn of our family home for whatever federal...
View ArticleShirley McGinn, Volunteer of the Year
I had the honour, after lunch at today’s PEI Home and School Federation Annual General Meeting, of posthumously awarding the late Shirley McGinn the Steve McQuaid Volunteer of the Year Award.I was so...
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