The Oodlanders
Looking back over the year so far, by far and away the most profound experience I’ve had came at the closing supper of Crafting {:} a Life, where my friend Elmine read a story, fresh that day from her...
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Bldg. Fresh Air Intake Unit
I’d like to think that the members of the Bldg. Fresh Air Intake Unit had very smart uniforms and exceptional collegiality.SignageAir
View ArticleA Very Different Hurricane
When Hurricane Juan struck Prince Edward Island in 2003, our neighbourhood, while not devastated, was certainly affected: huge trees came down, power was out for several days, and there was a lot of...
View ArticleSusie Bright's Cool Tools
Has there ever been as enthusiastic a guest on the Cool Tools podcast as Susie Bright?To say nothing of the breadth of her tool recommendation choices: Gingher Craft Scissors, Palomino Blackwing 602...
View ArticleNobody knows why all books are published on Tuesdays
Why Are Books Published on Tuesdays?(TL;DR nobody knows)Via Notes from a Small Press.Publishing
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PresenceRouter will stop working with macOS Catalina
Those of you who have been reading here for a long time may recall that, many years ago during simpler times, I developed a macOS app called PresenceRouter.PresenceRouter allowed you to echo your...
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Bicycle + Bus Session at Charlottetown Farmers' Market
As you all know, I love that it’s possible to load a bicycle on the front of public transit buses in Charlottetown, and, since I first wrote about this in 2013, I’ve tried hard to spread the word to...
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How to Live in Detroit (on my bike)
Remember my tale of How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass?Well, I ordered it on September 3, it arrived 7 days later at The Bookmark, and I picked it up today.Local independent bookstore...
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Don't Turn Only Push
I stared at this for a long time before I was confident enough to enter.
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I Rode my Bicycle to Montreal (Not Really)
I woke up at 3:45 a.m. on Saturday morning. I showered, got dressed, made myself a coffee and some granola with yogurt.After my quick breakfast, I took my bicycle trailer out of the front room and set...
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Why I flew to Montreal rather than taking the train (and why we need better...
If you read my tale of riding my bicycle to the airport you may have made note of the apparent absurdity of doing so only to get on an airplane, which is not at all a low-carbon-emitting kind of thing...
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Renting an Electric Vehicle to Drive from Montreal to New Hampshire
After cycling to the airport, flying to Montreal, and making my way by public transit to my brother’s house, I was ready for the final leg of my journey from Charlottetown to southern New Hampshire.In...
View Article"But what happened in the past has lasting consequences..."
Rosie Le Faive writes, in The Past is a Foreign Country:But what happened in the past has lasting consequences. It can’t just “stay in the past.” If the consequences haven’t been apparent to you,...
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And the world was meant to be...
I stopped my car along Rte. 101 this evening, as I was driving from Dublin to Brattleboro, to take this photo of the sun starting to set on Brewster Forest. This is, by far and away, the best time of...
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Whetstone Brook
brattleboro-latchis-river.mp3When booking a room at the lovely Latchis Hotel in Brattleboro, Vermont, you can select a “mountain view” room (with windows looking out on Wantastiquet Mountain, just...
View ArticleThat Time Heather Saved the Day
Seventeen years ago I was also in New England, also at the tail end of a work trip. My office network connection, back on PEI, went down. Which was a problem, as it connected websites to the Internet....
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Fous de L'île
Posted up at Le Dépanneur Café after buying out the books-about-cycling-and-feminism at Drawn & Quarterly.Drawn & QuarterlyBooksMontreal
View ArticleElizabeth May is in Charlottetown on Monday
Elizabeth May is holding a Green Party rally on Monday, September 23, 2019 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in Memorial Hall at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown.I saw Ms May speak twice...
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Home in 40 Minutes Flat
When I arrived tonight from Montreal on Air Canada 1686, my bicycle and trailer were where I left them a week ago at Charlottetown AirportForty minutes later I pulled up in front of 100 Prince Street....
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