Annals of Foreign Ear Bodies
That time 15 years ago when Dr. Chris Lantz removed the “most challenging foreign ear body ever” from my ear. He has yet to redeem any of his three wishes.
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An Everyday Book Every Day
My friend Chantal sent me and Oliver and lovely, ornately-crafted letter earlier this week, wrapped in an envelope of her own creation. I turned around and turned the envelope into a book and mailed it...
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Ice and Snow
I drove out to the North Shore on this warm day after realizing I hadn’t been outside in a few weeks.Brackley BeachSnowIce
View ArticleEverest Pipkin on NFTs
Everest Pipkin on NFTs and art is a phenomenally compelling piece of persuasive writing, and worth reading on that level alone, even if you’ve no interest in the blockchain, art, the environment or...
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Everyday Book Two
I missed the golden hour of creativity today for making an everyday book, although, to my credit, I did use the first-hour-of-the-morning time for good, not evil. So I went at it this afternoon.Rough...
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Crocus!
The first crocus of 2021. Twelve days earlier than last year.CrocusesPhenology100 Prince Street
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Plane Drops Anti-Submarine Weapons on Sherwood
Don Jardine continues to harvest great stories from PEI’s weather history: like that time an RCAF bomber dropped depth charges on Sherwood.You might think that alone would be the remarkable part of...
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Annals of Toilet Seats
There hasn’t been much innovation in the toilet seat space in my lifetime: the methods for affixing the seat to the toilet have either been cheap plastic bolts that eventually give way, or solid metal...
View ArticleFantasy Fixing
Fantasy Fixing, from Van Neistat, comes pretty close to describing my father’s attitude toward stuff and the fixing of stuff. I inherited the feeling, if not the entire skill set. FixingDIYDadVan Neistat
View Article“Walking Provides Inner Peace”
Danish poet Peter Laugesen on the importance of walking without purpose:You have to leave things that you feel distract you if you want something else. And you should do that other thing no matter...
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Daylight Time
Daylight Saving Time kicked in here this morning. As my buddy Dave wrote in his newsletter this morning:“Right,” I said to myself. “It’s the bad one.”Setting aside the absurdity of this time prison we...
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I followed the road back to me, and found that I was no longer there.
On Sunday afternoon I broke down in great buckets of tears, more tears than since that cold, snowy Sunday last January I spent by myself in St. Paul’s, pouring myself out while listening to Ingrid...
View ArticleASMR
Matt Webb writes beautifully about ASMR:ASMR is a legit cultural phenomenon, and it is no weirder to be microdosing intimacy on YouTube than it is to get thrills out of sitting around with your...
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No TV
One of the unanticipated side-affects of le grande réarrangement is that I no longer have a television in the living room. For the first time since before Oliver was born.Over the last 48 hours this...
View ArticleThe Twin City Bubble
As near as I can tell, Charlottetown is twinned with three other places: Shediac, NB, Forest City, NC and Ashibetsu, Japan. With the revivified Atlantic Bubble set to be announced today, I thought I...
View Article"We are beautiful, vulnerable creatures capable of equanimity, understanding,...
The Suburbs are Stunned by Bowie Rowan, in Belt Magazine, is a such a beautiful, well-crafted piece of writing.Belt MagazinePittsburgh
View ArticleAct as if
Michael J. Fox in Good Housekeeping in 2011:You know, there’s a rule in acting called “Don’t play the result.” If you have a character who’s going to end up in a certain place, don’t play that until...
View ArticleYou’ve been accepted!
The New Brunswick College of Craft and Design offers an Alone Together Residency. From the FAQ:WHEN WILL I KNOW IF I’VE BEEN ACCEPTED?You’ve been accepted! This is not an application form. This is a...
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The Gallery Coffee House and Bakery
My friends Martin and Maida called me in a delighted tizzy this afternoon, having just come from the soft opening of The Gallery Coffee House and Bakery on Great George Street in the...
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