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Rukàvinà
Apparently my surname isn’t exotic enough, so they decided to add supplementary accents.
View ArticleRefuse Uline
This helpful website is a useful resource to understanding why we shouldn’t be patronizing Uline, they of the ubiquitous inch-thick catalogues of shipping supplies. Bonus reason: your letter carrier...
View ArticleI Can't Let Go ft. Tim Chaisson
I Can’t Let Go ft. Tim Chaisson from The SIDH is a lovely song that heretofore escaped my attention.Tim ChaissonThe SIDH
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Switching Landscapes
This week we’ve traded in the gentle shores of one island for the monumental shores of another. The forecast calls for rain for every single day of our vacation, but that only serves to enhance the...
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Blackberries
Blackberries are clearly at the top of the berry kingdom, and booking off this week, in this place, for this vacation was something I did, in no small way, because this is the week the blackberries...
View ArticleThe Ocean
theocean.mp3Sitting by the ocean on the western shore of Cape Breton. Ocean | Water | Waves
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Vacation Sketch Studio
The perpetual quest to figure out chair leg proportions. Twice I’ve dipped my brush in my drink; I’ve yet to accidentally drink the paint water.SketchChair
View Article“We Sailed Into The Middle Of The Ocean”
In conversation in the car today, en route to Mabou, I said:I’m terrified of sailing, but there’s also 3% of me that’s planning to sail around the world.Apropos of that: We Sailed Into The Middle Of...
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Gift of Sunshine
On this, the last full day of our summer vacation in Cape Breton, we have been gifted a day of sunshine after many days of rain. So I end my vacation where I started it, in the hammock. Cape...
View ArticleBeatles Ukulele with Eve Goldberg
My friend Eve is teaching a Beatles Ukulele course on Zoom this fall.
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Keep Right
We’re on our way home from Cape Breton, via the ferry, our band of merry travellers. The Chief Public Health Office has done something really smart: in place of the tourist information kiosk on the...
View ArticleCOVID Claustrophobia
The house I grew up in didn’t have a true attic, but it did have an interconnected web of crawlspaces wending around the gabled roof, and at least once I was called to make the crawl thorough the...
View Article"Provincial" Credit Union
Provincial Credit Union, where I’ve been doing my banking for almost 30 years, is amidst a merge with several other PEI credit unions. The question of naming the merged entity was raised to the...
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Yes, I like piña coladas, and gettin' caught in the rain
The Achilles heel of a cycling-not-driving active transportation lifestyle is the rain, because riding a bicycle in the rain is clearly impossible.And yet it’s not!I snarfed up a half-price pair of...
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Welcome Back Blackberries
Our friend Erin is the best: on our return from Cape Breton‘s blackberry-drenched coast, we found a pint of PEI blackberries in our vestibule waiting for us.
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The one where Annamie Paul’s car window finally goes up…
The day didn’t start off unusually: I got up, had a shower, made breakfast, made lunch for Olivia, had a cup of coffee.I was about to head out the door when I got a text from Darcie Lanthier, Green...
View Article“She sings the four over the major three”
Professional Musicians React dives deep into two versions of Taylor Swift’s Love Story, the original and Taylor’s Version. Taylor SwiftProfessional Musicians React
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