Sporty Pete
As I was leaving Sporting Intentions after purchasing a new lifejacket in preparation for some cycle-canoeing, and heading toward Freetown for my horseback riding lesson, I was hit with a sudden...
View ArticleA Balance of Activities
From Lisa M. Shulman’s Before and After Loss:The process of emotional healing and brain healing is enhanced by a balance of activities and experiences, some distracting and some challenging, some...
View Article“Professional Musicians React to Olivia Rodrigo”
Eavesdrop on musicians deconstructing music on the new Professional Musicians React show. Music
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Reanimating Essex Free Press Type
My Essex Country friends Laurie Brett and Art Rhyno came for a visit today, the first outlanders I’d laid eyes on months: they were en route from Ontario to Nova Scotia to see family, and, being lovers...
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Canoe + Bicycle Shakedown Ride
I hitched up my canoe to my bicycle using the Wicycle Trailer this afternoon to see how it handled on the road.The canoe-bicycle connection is via a device Wicycle calls the “smart stick” and it turns...
View Article“Functioning Levels”
From the introduction to Finn V. Gratton’s Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults:Finally, language related to “functioning levels” (e.g., “high-functioning” and “low-functioning”) will not...
View ArticleSilver Platform Clogs
I love this interview of Alicia Kennedy by Sarah Miller, which starts as a discussion about a pair of silver platform clogs, and migrates into an exploration of hyper-performant femininity and how “an...
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Face to Face Pen Night
For the first time in more than a year our monthly Pen Night met face to face. To allow us to socially distance, and to try out a hybrid format with far-aways coming in on Zoom, we gathered in the...
View ArticleOn Listening
From Be interested, be curious, hear what’s not said: how I learned to really listen to people by Annalisa Barbieri in The Guardian:Listening, I discovered, wasn’t just about waiting for the other...
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Get thee to Midgell and into a Kayak
For many years Donna Glass and her capable team have been running a kayak and paddleboard rental operation out of the riverside park in Morell; construction of a new bridge in Morell, with the...
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état de choc
Whoever sent us an anonymous gift from état de choc: thank you; you are aces.
View ArticleAutomatic Elmine Book Delivery
My friend Elmine blogs about her book purchases.I’ve found that if Elmine is interested in a book, I’m also interested in it.To the point where I’m thinking I should simply ask Dan at The Bookmark to...
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Thinking in Three Dimensions
During my year at Trent University I took a course in “natural language understanding by computers” from Stephen Regoczei, a course that we conjured up as a reading course so as to free me from the...
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The Oscar Wilde Award at Island Fringe
Earlier this summer Grace Kimpinski, the Executive Director of Island Fringe, got in touch with an idea for a new award for this year’s edition of the festival, and asked if I’d be willing to sponsor...
View Article“The Story of Playdate”
I’m pretty sure that Playdate, the brand new bright yellow game console from Portland’s Panic, is an inane frivolity, the kind of thing the world doesn’t really need. But it certainly begat an...
View ArticleThe Guardians that begat The Guardians
Belt Magazine has the story of how the Cleveland Guardians got their new (old) name.
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Bicycles May Use Full Lane
As you’ve been moving about Charlottetown this month you may have noticed new cycling-related street signs installed, marking dedicated bicycle lanes, areas where the road should be shared with...
View ArticleWhat to do when a motorway gets built through your farm…
Terbay Services is one answer, a lovely-sounding one:In 1969 the M6 was built through the Lune Gorge and over Shap summit, cutting across Orton Low Moor on John and Barbara Dunning’s farm. When they...
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Rainbow Valley on Kermode & Mayo
I am an unrepentant fan of the BBC’s Kermode & Mayo Film Review program. I have been listening to the weekly Friday podcast for as long as there have been podcasts.During COVID times, with the...
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