You Only Get What You Give
The release of a cover of You Only Get What You Give by Pomplamoose last week led me back to the 1998 original by New Radicals.For a song that has, over the last two decades, seared itself into the...
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I Am Alive
On Saturday night Oliver and I attended the latest of Theatre Horizon’sArt Houses performances, The Peay Family, directed by Marisol Rosa-Shapiro.Toward the end of the show the members of the Peay...
View ArticleThe West Dunbartonshire Situation
The Guardian reports Missing 12-year-old girls found after night locked inside train.Falling asleep on a train or bus past my stop was a perpetual fear of mine as a kid. I’m not sure why the prospect...
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A5 Size
The rigour I’ve brought to the Everyday Book practice has waxed and waned, but I went back at it this morning. Perhaps I should reasonably pace myself and recast this as “Everyday Book Every Monday.”I...
View ArticleGary Ellis
I was sad to read of the passing of Gary Ellis this morning.In the spring of 1995, after spending two years on the Island, and beginning to plant tentative roots, Catherine and I decided that we’d...
View Article“You don’t believe me, do you?”
John Matthias‘ tale in The New Yorker of Parkinson’s, visions, COVID, psychiatric commitment, and death is an overwhelming read.John MatthiasThe New YorkerCOVID-19
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Shipping Tag Book
Who among us has not found themselves in a remote cottage with no playing cards and a hankering for gin rummy, and set out to create a deck from found objects.This morning’s Everyday Book is a...
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Oh cycling, how I do love thee...
I took my bicycle off the road for winter 101 days ago, on December 12, 2020.Today, with the roads dry, the temperature 11ºC, the weather sunny and windless, and the prospect of bánh mì to be had out...
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Using Her Marbles Ebook
While I remain steadfast in my belief that books are meant to be made of paper, I also know now, firsthand, how much energy it takes to schlep printed books around when they’re ordered. As such, I...
View ArticleSocial Assistance Vision Care
Opposition Social Development and Housing critic Hannah Bell has tabled Motion 30 – Social assistance vision care in the Legislative Assembly of PEI, and it bears paying attention to, as it addresses...
View ArticleSunset Over Charlottetown
I cycled out to the almost-middle of the Hillsborough Bridge using the new not-quite-open-yet-and-strewn-with-large-gravel active transportation pathway. My arrival happened to coincide with the sun...
View ArticleLast Yeast
From the SPACE10 newsletter:Last yeast has made us painfully aware of the limitations of systems that underpin our everyday life: from supply chains and healthcare, to the design of our schools,...
View ArticleSingle Parent Tricks
One of the fun new aspects that being a single parent has revealed is that my birthday celebration falls to me to help facilitate. So while propriety would normally prevent me from calling attention to...
View ArticleThese Precious Days
You might want to take the afternoon off to read These Precious Days, by Ann Patchett.Ann PatchettHarper’s
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Nuzzle Nuzzle
Early last week I had a request from Abby Hyndman, daughter of my friends Nicky and Dave: she’s a student in the Holland College videography program, and wondered if I’d entertain being the subject of...
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Romantic Hotels in Moose Jaw
I can literally not conceive of what pattern of search behaviour led Google to conclude that I’m in the market for a Saskatchewan tryst. GoogleAdvertising
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I've never been to me...
As regular readers will know, I seldom write about sex in this space1.And I’m not going to start now.But the tale I will tell, while not sexual at all, certainly involves vulnerability in the same...
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Spring forward!
Last year I achieved something of a minor household victory when I managed to patch a hole in my duvet cover.Because, at the time, I was focused primarily on keeping my head above water, it never...
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