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oats, coriander, thick green oil
Some years ago Catherine undertook a wholesale renovation of the room we variously refer to as “the office” and “the library.” I think she needed a plausible excuse to build a custom liquor cabinet,...
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Scottish Folk in the Uncanny Valley
I took in a Karine Polwart concert via Zoom on Saturday afternoon, part of the Live To Your Living Room series. I have become an unrepentant fan of hers over the last year: Ophelia was my gateway in...
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According to The Shetland Dictionary, a noost is:the place, usually a hollow at the edge of a beach, where a boat is drawn up.Watch the Good Shepherd IV enter the water from its noost; it is an...
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Shrovetide and Bubble Ashes
Say what you will about Christianity, it’s got some solid rituals, and the Shrovetide, Lent, Easter trilogy is the most epic.Today, Shrove Tuesday, is an important inflection point in the epic, a day...
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Handpie Packaging Refresh
An impressive packaging refresh from The Handpie Company. We’re having both before and after for supper tonight. (Good to see that Pie Man is still part of the branding; I love Pie Man).Pro-tip: if you...
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Pure Imagination
A year ago, in the midst of Grief 1.0, I experimented with turning the cards and flowers we received when Catherine died into handmade paper. It took a lot of experimenting, as it was both my first try...
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Fallout Shelter
I ran into my friend Suzanne this week in the Sobeys checkout line. I hadn’t seen her in a long time, since the before before the before. The effect was not unlike what I expect opening the door of the...
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Animal Tracks
A view from the back hallway window at 100 Prince Street. The tracks on the right are human tracks, mine, made during my regular trudge back far enough to get a good look at the snow and ice on the...
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“Surly seal spotted on Charlottetown sidewalk apprehended by police”
As the rest of our world unravels, here on the Island a seal gets a ride in the back of a police cruiser.Every reporter deserves the occasional exploding bus-fire eater-magic cat story: today was...
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Fish
Buried at the bottom of a cupboard in our library, I found the stained glass fish that used to grace our piano window. I restored it to its former home.
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Belong
My friend Cynthia is producing The Belong Podcast. Among other things, it’s Canada’s preeminent source of interviews with people named Peter (Rukavina, Bevan-Baker, Mansbridge). But, more importantly...
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I love William Denton’s imagination:In this STAPLR composition, one one-minute iteration of Vexations is played for each minute of help given at any desk at York University Libraries that day. It keeps...
View ArticleShove Thud Magic
I walked into the kitchen tonight to put the dishes in the dishwasher and found a mouse standing on the stove looking up at me. It was a cute mouse, as mice go, but still. For the longest time it was...
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Sunbeam
I walked into my bedroom late this afternoon to find the sun shining through the blinds, for a fleeting moment, so as to cast a single perfect sunbeam on my bookshelf.
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A Walk at Fullerton’s Creek
We went for a walk at Fullerton’s Creek Conservation Park in Stratford this afternoon. If not for Oliver visiting a few times last year without me, I never would have known it existed.The sun was...
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COVID Briefing Viewership
Things have taken a turn for the anxious here on Prince Edward Island this week COVID-wise, with an uncommon number of new cases, cases not tied to travel outside the province. Chief Public Health...
View ArticleAllowed vs. Safe
In A Journal of the Plague Week 50, Jessica Spengler writes, in part:But we’re not out of the woods yet, and “end of lockdown” does not mean “end of pandemic”. There seems to have been a lot of...
View ArticleSee you in 196 days...
As a result of the Modified Code Red here (I still have no idea what the “Modified” means), the dental appointments that Oliver and I had scheduled for tomorrow morning were cancelled. The next...
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