No, I don’t want to sleep with you…
The straw that broke the camel’s back of getting Catherine and I together was that Catherine offered my grandmother the use of her bed.Nana was in town for the occasion of my little brothers’ 19th...
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My favourite woollen mill is hiring.MacAusland's Woollen Mills
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Pen & Pencil
As the instigator of the renaming of Pen Night to The Pen and Pencil Club of Prince Edward Island, I felt a certain obligation to create the first membership cards for the newly-named group.As I was...
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Megan Hallinan has mushrooms nailed to her head:You know how either as an adult, you see something dangled in front of you but you decide that it is not needed in the moment. So you carry on with your...
View ArticlePeter (no, not me!) Dances with the Stars
My friend Peter is Dancing With the Stars this month in support of Hospice PEI, an organization that’s been of great support to our family over the last two years. Peter has a demanding day job;...
View ArticleStarbucks vs. Olivia
Olivia and I have been in the habit of going to Starbucks every Sunday afternoon for the last year. Starbucks offers some advantages that trump the moribund coffee and aggressive capitalism:First, we...
View ArticleGnome Launchers: Two Takes
I thought this post on GNOME launchers would cover the same ground as this 1980 Maclean’s article on gnome launchers. But it didn’t.David RamsdenWilliam Denton
View ArticleWild Blueberry Mustard Waffles
If perchance you wake up one Monday morning, realize you forgot to go grocery shopping, and fall back on the leftover waffles from Sunday morning to feed your daughter breakfast, here is a piece of...
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Regeneration
Paul Hawken’s new book Regeneration came out last week. I have been following Hawken since his Growing a Business was published in the mid-1980s. I’m skeptical of “all we need to do is X and the...
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A Stop at Willoughby
I happened upon a bootleg of this seminal episode of thirtysomething last night. I was reminded, yet again, how groundbreaking the series was, on so many levels. This particular episode touches on...
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Under Pressure
Thanks to the diligence and generosity of my mother, I am now the custodian of my great-grandfather’s barometer. Edgar CaswellWeatherBarometric Pressure
View ArticleColourful Maximalism
Icelandic artist Shoplifter interviewed on the Louisiana Channel.
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“Less of everything is the only way to avert catastrophe”
George Monbiot in The Guardian:Everywhere, governments seek to ramp up the economic load, talking of “unleashing our potential” and “supercharging our economy”. Boris Johnson insists that “a global...
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The Channel Tunnel - Life on the Inside
If you like behind-the-scenes infrastructure videos, you might find the BBC’s The Channel Tunnel — Life on the Inside interesting.Olivia and I travelled from Paris to London through the Chunnel in...
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Losing Our Neighbourhood Weeping Birches
Longtime readers will recall my yearly habit of snapping a photo of Olivia walking up Prince Street on the first and last days of school.Here’s the first day of grade one:And here’s the last day of...
View ArticleDarn Tough Socks
I had a hard morning, and resolve to piggyback my way to happiness on the back of buying some new socks.My go-to sock dealer is Proude’s Shoes, and so that’s where I headed, thinking I might pick up a...
View ArticleOther People
Olivia was on fortnightly respite last night, and so I took advantage of the evening free of parental responsibility to take myself out to supper. I stopped in at Craft Beer Corner on the way for a...
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Midnight Pumpkin
We opened the door at 100 Prince Street this morning to find a lovely pumpkin sitting in the vestibule:Where might this pumpkin have come from, I asked myself. We are lucky to be the recipients of all...
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