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Grant Miller, 1931-2020
Catherine’s father, Grant Miller, died on Friday. Grant’s obituary contains this wonderful phrase:This peaceful and modest man had a deep appreciation for the wonderments and beauty of nature,...
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Beyond the usual serving of later stage Liam Neeson, there are two redeeming features of The Commuter (now streaming on Netflix):The opening sequence, that drives home the “man commutes every day on...
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Graham Rogers Lake
If you travel west from Charlottetown on the Trans-Canada Highway, as you leave the city you cross the North River on your way to the Town of Cornwall.According to the Cornwall Island Narratives...
View ArticleThe Booksellers
The documentary The Booksellers : A behind-the-scenes look at the New York rare book world is streaming in Canada on CBC Gem. CBCDocumentary
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Historical Blog Post Update Triage with Reeder, Shortcuts and Reminders
For more than a month now I’ve been consuming a diet, every morning, of the blog posts I wrote on that day, over the last 20 years.Beyond giving me a sense of my mortality, I’m using this to triage...
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Bright Orange String
My Artist Trading Cards entry (from the back), hung in the window of 100 Prince Street on bright orange string. They also come in “Here We Are,” “Are We Here” and “Here Are We” models.LetterpressArtist...
View ArticleThe One Where I (Accidentally) Deleted My Calendar
On my computer I had a task list called “Peter” that was empty, and that I never used. So I deleted it. I did not realize that, in doing do, I was also deleting my calendar of the same name. Oops.In...
View ArticleEllie Quarantines in South Korea
Ellie, who until recently was a #vanlifer with her partner Charlie, has gone solo, ditched Charlie and the van, and flown from the UK to South Korea, where she must quarantine for 14 days. She’s...
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Pictographic Shift
Spotted near the Murphy Community Centre on Richmond Street in Charlottetown: “No Parking” has given way to the “circle P slash.”SignagePictogramsNo ParkingCharlottetown
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Apostrophe Hacking
My font of 120 point Akzidenz Grotesk is missing the apostrophe. But there’s a comma. And what is a comma but an apostrophe in need of a lift.LetterpressTypographyApostrophe
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Are We Here: Behind the Music
Every weekday morning for three years I drove Oliver to Colonel Gray Senior High School. When we arrived at the school, I would text his educational assistant–usually Dave, but sometimes Jill or Laura...
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We Came, We Saw, We Traded
Oliver and I went over to Memorial Hall at Confederation Centre of the Arts for the Artist Trading Card event last night.The setup was similar to previous years, but for the palpable feel of COVID in...
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Posthumous Coffee
Many years ago, Catherine and I, and our friends Lisa and Stephen, set off from Charlottetown to drive Stephen to the train home to Ontario. For reasons of whimsy, we opted to drop Stephen at a flag...
View ArticleMandy and Kathryn Rent an RV
There is much to love about Mandy Patinkin’s YouTube channel, including considering the prospect of Mandy and his wife Kathryn Grody living in an RV for six weeks.Mandy Patinkin
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(Not) Cloggeroo
This past weekend was the 2020 edition of the Cloggeroo folk festival in Georgetown, an event that Oliver’s attended almost since it was founded; indeed, it was among his first nights away from home...
View ArticleUpdated Electric Vehicle Statistics for Prince Edward Island
I first reported on the number of electric vehicles registered by the Province of PEI last year; I received updated numbers for 2020 late last week, and here’s a year-on-year comparison:Vehicle...
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What Grief Feels Like
I didn’t set off knowing what I was going to create last week, but it ended up as something of a visual expression of what grief feels like.I started off with the words “I’m okay” in my head, evolving...
View ArticlePostage Stamp Arbitrage
Can you make money buying “forever” stamps before a postage rate increase and then reselling then after? These reporters did the math.PostageUSPSStampsThe AtlanticArbitrage
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88 Days Between Haircuts
It’s been 88 days since my last hair cut, at the end of May.After lunch I got caught in the thunderstorm at Alambé Coffee on Kent, and, fortified by a hearty Alambé Phin Ice Milk Coffee, I made a run...
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