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The Whole Thing Is the Hard Part
A poem by Heather Christle, anthologized in Set Me On Fire: A Poem for Every Feeling, by Ella Risbridger. Ella RisbridgerPoetry
View ArticleStepping up, falling back, labouring, and resting
Remember the Geese, from Karine Polwart and Pippa Murphy.We are each other’s wind resistance, a human skein. And we’re not going to make it on our own.MusicKarine PolwartGeese
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Bleed Times
I am into my fourth year of making regular voluntary blood plasma donations at the Canadian Blood Services centre in Charlottetown.Truth be told, I’ve been at it for longer than that, but I fell into a...
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What happened to Oliver’s British History text?
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View ArticlePlease tell me about your mattress...
How difficult it is to find non-payola mattress reviews online is perhaps the clearest example of how how the commercial internet fails us. At the same time, in a not-unrelated development, mattress...
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Ban
How do we develop our daily living consumable tastes? I have no idea. But I’ve been using Ban-brand antiperspirant for as long as I can remember, the unscented variety, as I’ve no wish to smell like...
View ArticleThe Joyful Gifts Miracle
One of the things that confounds Oliver is making choices, and when you sit back and think about the number of things in everyday life that are choices—what clothes to wear? what to have for...
View ArticleWidow We Do Now?
An episode of the The Widow We Do Now? podcast in August featured widower Treagan White, who talked about the life and death of his wife Kim White through cancer, and his life since. Listening to it...
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Glimpse in Progress
A work in progress, next in the series of COVID-zeitgeist projects that started with TRY in 2020. They say you can’t print light-on-dark with a letterpress and get satisfying results; I’m setting out...
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Whitehouse.gov Before and After 2021
See also the same comparison from 2009.Joe BidenPoliticsU.S.A.Whitehouse.govWebsite
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Mat Exchange
I admire the spelling out of all the possible mat-exchange cadences. Although I prefer fortnightly in place of bi-weekly, as the latter can mean both ”every two weeks” and “twice a...
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Annals of Mask Wearing
I was in Amazon Rekognition this afternoon–their ”image recognition as a service” product–and notice a new “PPE detection” tab. I uploaded a masked photo of myself to try it out and, sure enough, it...
View ArticleTravel as Homemaking
Sarah McKenna Brown wrote her 2010 thesis on couchsurfing culture: Travel as Homemaking: The Building of Mobile Intentional Communities.This thesis is a product of my interest in movement and social...
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Bravx
Via my niece A., who is among the most progressive people I know, I have come to learn more about neopronouns.Culturally I am a member of an interesting generation: those younger than I are completely...
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Rusty Washer Paint Fix
Our five year old LG washing machine started rusting last year, under the detergent drawer. Initially I treated this as the start of an inevitable, unstoppable process of decay, but I decided,...
View ArticleSorting the Zoom Gallery View
This Zoom forum thread about being able to story gallery view provides a fascinating look into the many people, from teachers to dancers to actors to game developers, for whom this feature would be a...
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The Return of the Cucumber
Cucumbers were really the only food that Catherine truly abhorred. As a result, I lived in a cucumber-free household for 28 years; it was as if cucumbers went extinct in 1992.This week, as part of my...
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GLIMPSE
My experiment printing light-on-dark with my Golding Jobber № 8 letterpress finished up last week, and I’ve given the cards that resulted a couple of extra days to dry; they are now available for sale...
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South Indian-Style Mac and Cheese
My late friend and colleague John Pierce codified his mother-in-law’s macaroni and cheese recipe and it’s online at Almanac.com. I made it for supper tonight, and it’s as good as John described it....
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