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Elevation
My first time inside an elevator in almost two years. It felt important to memorialize. PhotoCOVID-19Selfie
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First Coffee
My first coffee in a coffee shop for 2022, a gift of the slight lessening in the march of COVID and the resulting slight loosening of the “stay in your homes and lock your doors.”Not pictured: one of...
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The KitchenAid PTO
During my public school years teachers would frequently write PLO on blackboards as a signal to custodians to not erase what was written, during nightly cleaning—Please Leave On.That we were all...
View Article“On Getting from Darkness to the Light”
Parliament’s Grievous Angel Charlie Angus On Getting from Darkness to the Light.Sage, bracing words from one of our country’s most eloquent legislators.Charlie AngusNDPParliamentGrievous Angels
View ArticleFor every problem there is someone else who is there too
A confounding problem for someone like me who swipe-types thousands of words a week on my iPhone: the keyboard capitalizes words after a certain kind of delete, after a certain kind of...
View ArticleTK Maxx
James A. Reeves’ luggage went missing at Heathrow:Our luggage went missing somewhere in the depths of Heathrow, so I bought a cheap change of clothes at a discount chain called TK Maxx, which has the...
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2022 EDC
An unfortunate pen leak caused me to need to empty my Bolstr bag for a wash. Here’s everything that was in it, the 2022 edition of my “everyday carry” kit:two KN95 face-masks, one active and one...
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A Horrific Playmobil Accident
This was the scene I was greeted with in my driveway the other afternoon. I have no idea what befell horse and rider, and I fear I may have been involved somehow, without knowing it. Let’s be careful...
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My house emailed me to tell me it was too cold...
Last night, fresh off a good evening of silliness, I quickly checked my phone before returning home to find that my house had emailed me. “Your heating system failed to heat your home,” said the email....
View ArticlePear Sauce
Elderflower Farm sells pear sauce at the Charlottetown Farmers’ Market. Why hasn’t pear sauce ascended to apple sauce’s equal? It’s very good.
View ArticleLemberg, Lviv, Lyov, and Lwów
From the “Note to Reader” in East West Street:The city of Lviv occupies an important place in this story. Through the nineteenth century, it was generally known as Lemberg, located on the eastern...
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symmetry
Over the weekend, L. and I cleaned out the end of the upstairs hallway, carting the blanket overspill to the thrift shop and finding new organized places for everything else.In a bold move, L....
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Back to Improv
My personal COVID risk calculus, admittedly arbitrary, determined to see me come back to Laurie Murphy’s improv class tonight. I’m excited and nervous: it’s been two months. ImprovLaurie MurphyThe...
View ArticleSleep Apnea Refurbishment Program
In June of 2016, Catherine found herself in an appointment at the PEI Cancer Treatment Centre with Dr. Cipperly pinch-hitting for her regular oncologist. It happened to be his last appointment on his...
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How to keep writing?
We held a birthday party for my mother last night. Looking over the photos of the night, I see that everyone is smiling.It’s nice to see smiling; it’s been a long time since conditions, griefy, COVIDy,...
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Dorothy Forsythe
I was saddened to learn of the death of my longtime neighbour Dorothy Forsythe last weekend.When we moved into 100 Prince Street, we became neighbours to Dorothy and her late husband Bob at 108 Prince...
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Prince Edward Island has a fleet of electric school buses, one of which stops near our house every afternoon.I swore that the sound effect the bus emits was the same as the the Montréal métro’s dou dou...
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11 Pieces of Advice
L’s child L (yes, the initializing is going to get confusing) celebrated their 11th birthday last week, and my gift was a tiny handwritten, hand-bound book of advice. 11 pieces of advice to get them...
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Work at Gallant’s
Gallant’s is one of my favourite local businesses, and they’ve a staff of go-above-and-beyond people. Great work for someone who wants to work in a happy, cooperative kitchen.JobsGallant's Seafood
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Archdeacon John Clarke at St. Paul’s is one of my favourite writers. While the way it manifests is different, we share a fundamental belief system. I like what he had to say about God this...
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