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Annals of Electric Vehicle Charging
For the first month we had our Kia Soul EV electric vehicle, we charged it from a regular 120 volt outlet at the end of our driveway, an outlet originally installed to power the heating cables to keep...
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Facebook knows you’re pregnant before you’re pregnant.Spotify is in on this game.Yesterday I hit “shuffle” on my Spotify “Discover Weekly” playlist, and the first three songs it played were:The Book Of...
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He's not nearly as bereft as he appears...
On Saturday afternoon Oliver insisted that we leave lumpen form at home and go out on the town for some fun, in part to celebrate the birthday of our next door neighbour.At the last minute I threw my...
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From an essay by Mira Ptacin in Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York.Ptacin writes about relocating to Maine from New York City, and how her first week was spent at the home of a...
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First Try at Handmade Paper
About a year ago I asked Catherine if she would dig out her old paper-making gear for me, and a few weeks later some tubs and screens and some waxed paper emerged from the depths of her studio and into...
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Self Care Album Rock
Smart people–my mother, my mother-in-law, my brothers, Tim, my friend at the market–say that I need to take care of myself. So tonight, rather than rushing out the door to do the grocery shopping after...
View ArticlePrague vs. Airbnb
Today in the Observer, ‘I’m a stranger in my own city’: Prague takes on Airbnb to dam flood of tourists:Speaking to the Observer in his office in Prague’s new city hall – near the heart of the tourist...
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Cargo-Carrying Capacity
Two things I learned this morning:You can fit a queen-sized mattress into the back of a Kia Soul if you scrunch it up and give it a shove.Island Waste Management will take residential mattresses at no...
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My Bottle of Quink
In 2000, after I bought my very first fountain pen, my friend Catherine Hennessey gifted me a bottle of Quink.We moved into town that summer, something I recall because, in part, I distinctly remember...
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The Poem Story from Sarah Millican. What a brilliant comedic mind.VideoComedySarah Millican
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Life After Death
The playbook has me disabled by grief at this point, three weeks after Catherine died.And sometimes I am disabled, with my mind scrunched up in thickets.But there are periods of joy and beauty, both...
View ArticleBill McKibben on the Teck Mine
Bill McKibben in The Guardian, When it comes to climate hypocrisy, Canada’s leaders have reached a new low:Americans elected Donald Trump, who insisted climate change was a hoax – so it’s no surprise...
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The Woman Who Built a Potato House
Idahoan Kristie Wolfe built a giant potato house. Shower in a grain silo. You can stay in it.Tiny HomesIdahoKirsten Dirksen
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Stephen Fearing and The Sentimentals, As the Crow Flies.I saw Fearing live at George’s Roadhouse in Sackville on October 18, 2014. Catherine had been diagnosed with breast cancer a few weeks previous;...
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Reconsidering Microwave Ovens
This is going to drive Catherine’s ghost bonkers, but I think I might be coming around on microwave ovens.I’ve never owned a microwave.Sure, I’ve used one three or four times: a couple of times in the...
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