May Erlewine’s Clean Cup
Not only can May Erlewine cover Taylor Swift, she can also tell you how to make a good cup of coffee.May ErlewineCoffee
View Article15 Years Later
Fifteen years ago my entire family descended on Charlottetown to surprise me for my 40th birthday. I will never ever forgot how good that felt. BirthdaySurprise
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My Salad Days
In Midnight Chicken, Ella Risbridger concludes a recipe:A trivet on the table. Get someone else to pour the wine, put out knives and forks, and maybe make a salad (I mean, empty a bag of leaves in a...
View ArticleAre You With Me?
For reasons I can’t fathom, the band Stars completely escaped my attention until very recently. Despite the band having been around for 20 years, being Montréal-based, and having a Patreon that states,...
View Article“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the...
In the liner notes to Tiny Beautiful Things, the song by May Erlewine, is a pointer to tiny beautiful things, the book by Cheryl Strayed.Rule number one for a successful life: always follow the lateral...
View Article“sometimes you have to just sit with yourself”
Jessica Spengler, on spring loneliness:It was lonely, sitting at that table by myself, but it was also…tranquil? It was a loneliness I embraced—and undoubtedly somewhat romanticized, as one is wont to...
View ArticleWhat are Bilco Doors?
In an ad for a proof press I noticed this reference:currently located in a basement with 7 stairs to up and out bilco style doorsI’d never heard of “bilco doors,” and that’s because, as it turns out,...
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Birthday Book
I was fêted with pre-birthday blueberry pancakes this morning by a dear friend. Among the greatest honours I’ve ever received is a place in her birthday book.
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Jump
Oliver, in the spring of 2005, outside the wonderful Médiathèques d’Orléans. We were passing through on our way south.The night before, our first night in France, Oliver was fascinated by what, if...
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Spin. Time. DJ.
Back in mid-March I received an email from Matt Rainnie, personable host of CBC Mainstreet: would I be interested, he asked, in being the “Spin Time DJ” for the show on an upcoming Friday.Would I be...
View Article"Grape Scissors, she can't cut the ribbon with those!"
With news of the death of Prince Philip this morning, I thought back to Catherine Hennessey relating the story of the grape scissors on her blog in 2000:There is a story connected with the Ribbon...
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Almost Stratford
I leveraged the last warmth of the week to take another dash over the new Hillsborough Bridge path on my bicycle.Lots of progress since the last time: it’s now possible to cycle as far as the Stratford...
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The End of Television
In the fall of 2000 we found ourselves in need of a new television. Our old TV, which had been rescued from the apartment of my Great Aunt Lena years before, was giving up the ghost; Oliver had just...
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Bob Kelly’s Parking Pass
Back during the mid-1990s, when the Fixed Link from the mainland was being constructed, we had the IslandCam webcam mounted on the bridge of the Holiday Island ferry, uploading a photo of whatever was...
View ArticleSpun Time DJ
CBC Mainstreet has just posted Friday’s Spin Time DJ episode.CBC Mainstreet
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Bookmaking
A weekend of productive bookbinding here in the shop. After making a crop of Coptic-stitch books over the winter, I turned my attention to hardcover books, remembering again that, although they are...
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Let There Be Life
I recently helped the hosts of the Widow We Do Now podcast with a tiny bit of HTML wrangling for their Practical Tips for Early Widowhood page.One of those practical tips is “Tend Something”:Find...
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