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Stamps
I love receiving mail. It seems like magic, an envelope put in a box on the other side of the world shows up in a box up the street. All for a couple of dollars.We received a comforting sizzle of...
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No Bags On Feet!
Our family trip to Bilbao, in 2003, started off warm and sunny:So we have arrived in Bilbao. It is 36 degrees and sunny here — like we magically teleported ahead by 2 months into summer.But it was all...
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More Marbles
Dropping another round of Using Her Marbles off at The Bookmark this afternoon. Thank you to everyone who’s found their way to the book. Using Her Marbles
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From the New York Times, A Pandemic Is Hard Enough. For Some, Being Single Has Made It Harder:“All of the self-sustaining energy needs to be self-generated,” he said. “There’s no one else there. There...
View ArticleMargaret Atwood Edits Today
Margaret Atwood guest-edited the BBC program Today:Twice Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood guest edits Today, looking at the theme of change. She interviews climate activist (and 2019 Today...
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little pig cider
You should almost certainly not take alcohol advice from me: you’ve likely had more to drink in the last hour than I’ve had in the last year. But let me put in a good word for little pig cider, made in...
View ArticleAlison Roman
I have a parasocial crush on Alison Roman. Here she is cooking pasta with shallots.Parasocial is a word I learned listening to You’re Wrong About. I don’t have a crush on its hosts, but I’m a regular...
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Handmade Book with Eyelets
Rivets, eyelets, and similar fasteners have always fascinated me, and seemed like the kind of thing you would need complicated pinching tools to install. It turns out that all you need is a tiny...
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Wright’s Creek Trail
We took advantage of the warm and sunny winter afternoon to explore the northern part of the Wright’s Creek trail system.We ran into my friend Chantal and her family on the trail and learned that if we...
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“...likely accidentally...”
From a sign board on the Wright’s Creek trail (emphasis mine):In three years, the beavers have made their presence very apparent. They even managed, likely accidentally, to remove $3000 of pond...
View ArticleSnow Day!
A look out our front door on this Groundhog Day morning that’s been declared an official snow day:Snow Day100 Prince Street
View ArticleOK Google, play CBC Radio One
getting_my_google_home_to_play_cbc_radio_one_1.m4a.mp3It’s tricky to get my Google Home to play CBC Radio One: depending on the way I ask, it’s as likely, for reasons unknown, to play the private radio...
View ArticleUsing Voice Memos to Audio Blog
For the past five years a lot of the posts you’ve read here are ones I wrote and posted via email, using a process I described in 2016. Having my phone or tablet become a mobile blogging platform was a...
View ArticleThe Peter and Oliver Podcast: 20th Birthday Edition
the_peter_and_oliver_podcast_20th_birthday_edition_1.m4a.mp3A previously-unreleased episode recorded on October 1, 2020, Oliver’s 20th birthday. Earlier in the day he’d received a negative COVID-19...
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Modern Love
The cross-platform synergasm that is Modern Love—at last count it’s a newspapers column, a podcast, a TV series, and a book—is interesting in all its guises. My favourite branch on the tree, though,...
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Harold Stephens has Died
Twenty-two years ago, in the summer of 1999, I came across a copy of Blue magazine in a Boston bookstore. What drew me to purchase it, I don’t recall: I certainly wasn’t in the “adventure lifestyle”...
View ArticleBecoming 7% more risky...
I’ve been working with a social worker for the past six weeks on a kind of macroeconomic dig into my life, and where I take things from here. It’s been helpful in the same way that working with a...
View Article“It is not good to know every detail of the trip”
From the description of the Croatian Long Distance Trail, words that could equally as well apply to life in general:There are often villages and towns between the cities and settlements, which...
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