Goodbye Rain
Here’s a Spotify playlist of 25 songs that prompted me to hit “like” this spring and summer.Here are the songs on the playlist:Goodbye Rain — Hush Kids — Hush KidsYo Mae Leh — Invisible Minds — Make up...
View ArticleHow I Won the War Against Fruit Flies
Fruit flies in the kitchen have been the bane of my existence for as long as I can remember (I wrote about this bane in 2004 and 2008, and received much helpful advice in reply).This year I decided...
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Autumn Days
After the hurricane-that-didn’t-amount-to-much, the weather is brilliant this morning. A cup of tea at Receiver before heading to work. Receiver CoffeeWeather
View ArticleA Whole Lotta Joshes
There was a time last year when I was in active communication with three people named Matthew, all of whom went by Matt casually, and who had overlapping domains. More than once I caught myself...
View ArticleAre you someone’s Bryony?
Brigid Delaney writes about the new friendship for The Guardian:You haven’t seriously thought about the concept of picking a best friend since primary school, but now Bryony has asked you to be her...
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Missing Clock
The clock in the apex of the Coles Building—you may remember it from previous adventures—has gone missing. A quick call to the Department of Transportation, Infrastructure, and Energy (whose...
View Articleacorn, adder, bluebell, bramble, fern, heather, kingfisher, otter, raven,...
I’ve been listening to Lost Words Blessing every morning for months now, but until today I didn’t know the genesis of the project that begat the song:Why were these words taken out of the Oxford...
View ArticleBe Better at Listening
In today’s Connection Problem, Peter included some helpful “best practices for group video calls,” a topic that’s been on my mind a lot (I’ve spent 90 minutes in video calls today so far).I need to be...
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Gachuck
I spotted a “Gachuck” on the shelves at The Bookmark this afternoon, and personable owner Dan Macdonald helpfully passed along this pointer to a explanation of what it is (essentially a tool for...
View ArticleWho was Robertson Davies?
From William Denton, a pointer to the Dr. Canadiana Podcast, which includes a “minisode” titled Who is Robertson Davies? It’s a helpful explainer.Robertson DaviesPodcast
View ArticleYes, it really makes a "gachuck" sound!
True to my word, I bought a Gachuck today from The Bookmark.The history of the device here suggests it’s named that because of the sound the dispenser makes when clipping paper together, which I took...
View ArticleLunch at Slaymaker & Nichols
I had lunch with a friend today at Slaymaker & Nichols. We sat on the patio; the experience was top flight from beginning to end: great patio, great service, great food, great drinks. Lots of bees,...
View Article“I was trying to rent a flat from him – but then there was a murder”
Today’s How we met feature in The Guardian: “I was trying to rent a flat from him – but then there was a murder”. Heds like that don’t come along every day. The GuardianHow we metHeadlines
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Weekend Notes
Our Saturday started with our new-usual one-two of smoked salmon bagel pickup from Gallant’s, followed by a loop or two around the still-outdoor Charlottetown Farmers’ Market. Next, in a radical...
View ArticleTaking the Census in Hawaii
My friend Jamie has an opinion piece in yesterday’s USA Today about his two month stint working as a census worker in Hawaii.Jamie PierceCensusHawaii
View ArticleNet Zero Now
Lost in the discussion of the new Sherwood Elementary School’s construction as a “net zero ready” building has been that the catalyst for this move was MLA Ole Hammarlund’s successful Net Zero Now...
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NOVID-19
Just before lunch yesterday, Oliver’s support worker reported to me that he hadn’t been feeling well: headache, sore throat, stuffy nose, aches. In other words, enough boxes ticked on the COVID-19...
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Orange Shirt Day
Oliver woke up this morning and, once we’d sorted out that he didn’t have COVID-19, his biggest concern was that he didn’t have an orange shirt.It is, after all, Orange Shirt Day:Orange Shirt Day is an...
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Saltillo Search and Replace
Taking guidance from my friend Thelma to heart, I searched for all instances of Mi’kmaq (spelled with an apostrophe) here on the the blog, and replaced with Miꞌkmaq (spelled, properly, with a...
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