VBike
VBike, in Vermont, is a non-profit cycling advocacy group:VBike is a unique advocacy group dedicated to bringing super bike mobility to Vermont. We’re talking a bike revolution. Electric-assist...
View Article"I met you at a house party in Montreal"
I’ve had Montreal, by Port Cities (recorded | live | remix) on rotation for weeks now.It is a lovely song, with strong lyrics. But, more than that, I think it’s a sort of universal song, inasmuch as...
View Article"Don’t try to make me stop thinking about death"
Anne Boyer has a piece in the April 8, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, What Cancer Takes Away, where she writes, in part:Being sick makes excessive space for thinking, and excessive thinking makes room...
View ArticleFrank Zappa and Laura Secord
My seminal memory of high school history class is a black and white film that we were shown about the war of 1812. It was a low budget educational film, and because of its low budget there were several...
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In Halifax on an Airport Pickup Run
We are in Halifax for 48 hours to retrieve Olle and Luisa, who arrive by air late late tonight via Copenhagen, Reykjavík and Toronto. We arrived today so as to get our bearings.We had supper at Tako...
View ArticleMeanwhile, in the next millennium...
Twenty years ago today I wrote the first post in this space.Apparently the effort it took to do this was so Herculean that I didn’t get around to writing another post until two months later, a post...
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The Art Landry Building
We spent Thursday and Friday nights at the Westwood Residence at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. On the edge of the parking lot near Westwood is The Art Landry Building, a lovely and...
View ArticleMy Friend John Muir Has Died
I received the sad news this afternoon that John Muir has died.No person has played as many roles in my life as John: from the time I first met him in the fall of 1985 John was, by times, my mentor, my...
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New Dental Office
After years of appointments in the cramped/cozy confines of the old Cornwall Post Office, today was my first at the new home of Cornwall Dental Clinic.The new clinic is like a Brooklyn tech startup as...
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Ready for Crafting {:} a Life
For years I’ve been suggesting people or chairs in a circle, but they always end up in neat rows, like a school classroom. It seems like overkill to organize an event just to realize this dream, but...
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Ton on Crafting {:} a Life, Day One
Ton Zijlstra wrote about the first day of our unconference.There’s too much for me to process right now to write more myself, other than this snippet, written to a friend last night:I realized that, by...
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First Day, Last Day
Lost in all the hullabaloo this past week was Oliver’s last day of public school.Oliver
View ArticleOn Crafting {:} a Life
Blog posts about Crafting {:} a Life from people who were there:Crafting {:} a Life Unconference Day 1Crafting {:} a Life Unconference Day 2Crafting {:} a SagaLeaving PEIFantasy CartographyCrafting {:}...
View Article"Our weird puritanical crap about pain and pain medication"
Tim Carmody, on Kottke.org, writes about pain medication; in part:This is all to say: no, I’m not on pain medication. Yes, I’m terribly uncomfortable. No, I’m not uncomfortable enough to jump through...
View ArticleWebmentionQSL
While we were waiting for the bus home today, Olle explained to me and Oliver how QSL cards work: two ham radio operators establish a radio connection, the more distant and unlikely the better; during...
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The Andrea
After watching Andrea Ledwell receive her vegan powerball at Receiver Coffee in a coffee cup on Sunday, and hearing me joke that it was intended to have something poured over, Oliver went for it today,...
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A excellent tangible spin-off of Crafting {:} a Life: Rosie has started a new blog:Who starts a weblog in 2019? This kid, apparently.I’m sitting on my porch in Charlottetown on a sunny Sunday morning....
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Sensory Friendly Shopping at Sobeys
Earlier this spring Oliver and I walked into the Sobeys grocery store on Allen Street in Charlottetown on a Tuesday night.As soon as we walked in the door I noticed that something was different: the...
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Eduroam is Awesome
I type this from an easy chair in the lobby of the Killam Memorial Library at Dalhousie University in Halifax.I am here in Halifax because today was a day of returning Crafting {:} a Life participants...
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