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My 227 Day Cycling Season
I took my bicycle off the road 138 days ago. Making my cycling season 227 days long, 62% of the year.My friends Darcie and Peter cycled to the New Years Levees, so they’ve got me beat. But at almost...
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Social Isolation Buster
We held our second “Pen Night in the Clouds” tonight, in Zoom. We maxed out at 15 participants: 14 with video, and one person who dialed in by telephone.For a Zoom meeting it was pleasantly...
View Article"Know that I'm with you everywhere"
This Storm, a great musical gift to the world from Tara MacLean and Catherine MacLellan.MusicTara MacLeanCatherine MacLellanCoronavirus
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Coffee with Valerie and Lars
Oliver and I had waffles and coffee with our friends Lars and Valerie in Vermont this morning. I brought my wide-angle Logitech webcam over from the office, mounted it on a tripod, and fussed with the...
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Carrot Muffins
I have levelled up to the carrot muffins level of single fatherhood.MuffinsCooking
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How I Spend Now
Over the last month, due the pandemic, I have not paid for a single thing with cash, meaning that I have a complete record of all my discretionary spending.I exported my Mastercard statement, manually...
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Traffic Light Construction Kit
Remember traffic light bird?Well, the traffic lights that were once its home have been disassembled, and the parts for their replacements delivered. Soon the intersection of Prince & Kent will...
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They ain't in Kansas anymore...
Today’s Weekly Learning Seminar at 100 Prince Street consisted of an attempt to represent the shifting membership of the band Kansas, in its many forms over the years from 1973 to present, in visual...
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Autism Nova Scotia Social Distancing Programs
A great initiative from Autism Nova Scotia that’s open to autistic people in the three Atlantic provinces. Oliver’s signed up.AutismAutism Nova Scotia
View Article"I'm not sure I want things to go back to the way they were before..."
A very wise person admitted to me this week, “I’m not sure I want things to go back to the way they were before…”And I agree.Here are the things about life-under-COVID-19 that I like and don’t want to...
View ArticleKarine Polwart Trio Tiny Desk Concert
This Karine Polwart concert-of-three-songs made my day.Karine PolwartTiny Desk ConcertNPRMusic
View Article"Therapy under lockdown"
From The Guardian, Therapy under lockdown: ‘I’m just as terrified as my patients are’:For the 35 years I have practised as a psychotherapist, I have discouraged people from seeing themselves as hapless...
View ArticleMake Downtown "Active Transportation First"
This Letter to the Editor ran in this morning’s Guardian (paywall):As spring arrives and we all spend more time outside, those of us who live in downtown Charlottetown are awakening to a very changed...
View Article"Emotional Motion Sickness"
My mother and I agreed the other day that we much prefer musicians playing from home in their pyjamas. Here’s Phoebe Bridgers doing just that.Phoebe BridgersMusicYouTubeCoronavirus
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I Lori Joy Smithed my Cardigan
I’ve owned this blue Roots cardigan for a long time, long enough that there are certain people in this town who associate me with cardigan-wearing, even though, in recent years, I’ve worn it seldom. In...
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Lamy Safari Mango
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View ArticleThings I Learned Today
You can wash pillows. In the washing machine. You can make a stir fry from kohlrabi, shallots, and tempeh.Nobody’s coming to empty the upstairs wastebaskets; it’s on me.If you enable it in your...
View Article"When the World is Remade, Make It Like Appalachia"
Alison Stine writes in Belt:And when you look for a model on how to remake the world after the pandemic? Make it a place where strangers care for strangers without expecting anything in return. Make it...
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