On never knowing who’s going to show up...
The Bookmark hosted a virtual book launch for Alan Doyle tonight; he was interviewed by Kim Stockwood to rollicking good effect.Doyle talked about the St. John’s pub culture, and how one of the...
View ArticleAlex Campbell and Frank Ledwell
Two new items in the Queen Square Press shop this morning, both recovered from deep within the archival drawers of the print shop:I Am a Canadian, printed in 2015, is a passage from a speech that Hon....
View Article49:49 with Sylvan Esso
Remember hanging out with friends? This Q&A by Sylvan Esso made me miss hanging out with friends something awful.Sylvan EssoCOVID-19
View ArticleMatt Rainnie and Using Her Marbles
cbc-mainstreet-2020-12-03-catherine-miller.mp3I sat down in the studio the Matt Rainnie yesterday morning (although I wasn’t in the studio, I was on Skype, and Matt, oddly, was standing not sitting) to...
View ArticleSold Out
Being a nascent publisher, I had no idea of what size print run I should order for Using Her Marbles. So I ordered 30. And then Lulu, the printer, shorted me 5 copies, leaving me with 25. Apparently...
View Article“I’m Autistic. I Didn’t Know Until I Was 27.”
Marianne Eloise, writing in today’s New York Times:When I was growing up, I was as unkind to myself as other people often were to me: I called myself evil, cold, weird. I internalized the worst things...
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Two Negative Tests
A flurry here yesterday afternoon as Dr. Heather Morrison announced that two employees of the A&W burger joint in Charlottetown had tested positive for COVID-19. As it happened, Oliver had been...
View ArticleBette(r) Days
Bette(r) Days is a series from Alphabettes that “celebrates the things that did not suck in 2020.”For example:My husband and I live in a fourth floor apartment, with roughly 20 meters separating us...
View Article“To the Woman Trying to Find Herself”
Kathy Parker, writing in Elephant Journal :To you, dear woman, who is lost and without a trail to find your way home. I know what it means to be lost. Lost somewhere in the middle of the woman you...
View ArticleOne Year with an Electric Car
It was a year ago this week that we traded in our 2000 VW Jetta for a 2016 Kia Soul EV, and thus traded gasoline for electricity as the source for our transportation energy (I have not visited a gas...
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Boston
Nineteen years ago today, Catherine and Oliver and I were in Boston on a beta test for international travel, in anticipation of a planned trip, two months later, to Thailand.Taking Oliver to Thailand...
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Bien remuer avant l’utilisation
They moved the peanut butter at Sobeys on Allen Street a few weeks ago. It was just a couple of shelves up, but that I found it as temporarily debilitating as I did reinforced how well-worn the Sobeys...
View Article“get out of bed before internet”
From the evy’s garden manifesto:Sleep with airplane mode on. Resist the urge to check my phone when I wake up. If I see a stressful message in the vulnerable moments after waking up, it can affect my...
View ArticleJournalism as Therapy
Guardian reporter Jim Day interviewed me over the telephone this morning about Using Her Marbles, an interview that had extra depth to it because it was in a front-page interview by Jim for The...
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Hat + Mask
For the historical record, evidence of the new “pop your hat up to let you put your mask on” move that winter weather now requires.COVID-19Hats
View ArticleEV Charger at Queen Elizabeth Hospital
There’s now an electric vehicle charger at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, which would have been a big help to use when Catherine was regularly receiving treatment there.I’m hopeful that a charger will...
View Article“all bodies are different”
My friend Peter writes about wrapping up his pants business:I was quite grateful to our designer Cecilia for not mentioning early on that pants are pretty complex pieces of apparel with plenty of...
View ArticleYou've got a nine to five so I'll take the night shift...
Night Shift by Lucy Dacus.Golding JobberMusicLucy Dacus
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January and February
New in the letterpress goods shop this afternoon, a 2-month calendar for January and February 2021. Also accurate in 2027, 2038 and 2044.CalendarLetterpressQueen Square Press
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Hello Evelyn
Oh, and one more new thing in the shop today. Perhaps the nichiest of niche products. But if you’ve an Evelyn in your life, it doesn’t get much better than this.EvelynLetterpressQueen Square Press
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