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Pizza!
Tonight I feel like a master of the culinary universe: butterhorns were a gateway drug to the yeasty arts. Pizza dough, it turns out, is within the grasp of mortals.Killer toppings: pickled romanesco...
View ArticleWould I lie to you?
I’ve been on a Would I lie to you? tear for the last month; if you need to laugh out loud, it’s a good catalyst. This episode has it all.TelevisionWould I lie to you?
View ArticleThe Moynihan Train Hall
In June of 2013, Catherine, Oliver and I attended a site-specific theatre production, Manna-Hata, in the James Farley Post Office in New York City. In the intervening years, this post office, which was...
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40 Feet from Kingpin
On our way over the Hillsborough Bridge on Boxing Day, I took this photo of the side of a semi-trailer parked on the trail construction site.Following up later in the day, I fell down a fascinating...
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Pasta!
I found the crank for our vestigial pasta maker last week (I’d given it up for lost), and with an unusual surplus of Iris eggs in the house, I seized the opportunity to make fresh pasta for the first...
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Bolt!
My year-end gift to myself was a Baronfig Bolt ballpoint pen. It writes like a dream, and feels like it’s from the future.BaronfigPen
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Tuppence and Pesos
“Oliver, what’s that tin on top of the brick in the corner hutch?”“It’s a tin… Passionate Peach… tea…”“Does it actually have tea in it?”Oliver retrieved the tin.It did not contain tea.It did contain...
View ArticleFamily Zoom Studio
If holidays 2020 have demonstrated anything, it’s that our current video-chatting gear, built for the desk not the living room, doesn’t scale to groups. A comfortable couple can get by, huddled in...
View ArticleUsing Her Marbles in The Guardian
Jim Day’s piece on Using Her Marbles, Charlottetown man hopes his book helps people along difficult journey, ran in today’s Guardian.I replenished my stock of the book over the holidays, and you can...
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Where is Oliver going?
Oliver had a huge breakthrough in late 2020, overcoming his anxiety about crossing streets to the point where he can now happily retrieve the mail from our community mailbox, which requires crossing...
View ArticleQueen Square Press Shop Results for November and December
It’s been two months since I launched Queen Square Press as both an imprint and an online shop for my creative goods.It’s been a resounding success, both financially (in its own modest way) and...
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Coffee, Car, Clover
Every once in a while I get an email from Google letting me know that a photo that I took in 2017 of Clover in Burlington, MA, has been seen some awesome number of times — 1.5 million was the count...
View ArticleCoconut Chickpea Rice
I made this Coconut Chickpea Rice for supper tonight (ingredients and recipe in the video description); it’s very good. It also makes it clearer why we once went to war over spices....
View ArticleThe Loss
Sparrowwrites about the death of his mother in The Sun:How to describe what I’m going through? It’s like breaking up with your girlfriend, if your girlfriend had also given birth to you.GriefThe...
View ArticleTed Lasso
There’s an exercise where you take an abstract scribble and transform it into a fully formed drawing. It’s hard not to think of that exercise when watching the Apple TV+ dramedy Ted Lasso.The show, or...
View ArticleThe Mystery of the Lil’ Darlings
The standout culinary highlight of the fall was the new vegan pizza at Receiver Brass Shop’s Thursday night pizza-pasta: it is fantastic, and its freedom from animal products is remarkably incidental....
View ArticleCoffee Talk
I enjoyed this couple interviewing themselves about coffee, especially as their starting point was a Gaggia machine similar to the one I’ve used for a decade. This is a particularly helpful...
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The Toronto Book
I was lucky to receive a discarded calendar featuring vintage tourism posters from across Canada. I immediately set to reviving my bookbinding practice, making a coptic-stitched sketchbook from the...
View ArticleAlan Cochrane of that Ilk
One of the downsides of our patrilineal naming scheme is that I have tended to identify more with my father and my father’s father, and so on, following the line Rukavinas back in history. Talking with...
View ArticleOur Promise
At the beginning of every drop-in grief support group I’ve been to we’ve started with the reciting of “Our Promise,” which is a very helpful scene-setting for the hour following:Our PromiseThis is a...
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