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The Start of the 2022 Cycling Season
Two months to the day earlier than last year, I got my bicycle out of the basement, pumped up the tires, and got out on the road. It was glorious. My ride was short, to MacQueen’s for a tune up (now is...
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First Crocus of 2022
Three days later than last year.CrocusesPhenology100 Prince Street
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The Oasis Conundrum
I’ve been buying Oasis brand fruit juices for Olivia’s breakfast for years now.There are two variants in the shelf at Sobeys, one labeled 100% and one labeled 60%.Reasoning that something that’s...
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Letting Go of Reverence
When Catherine died in January of 2020, she left her studio–a room in the basement of St. Paul’s Parish Hall, right across the hallway from my office–much intact, thus leaving me to confront a lifetime...
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Alexa, set a timer for 15 minutes
I’m running one small cell in a global COVID testing panopticon, part of history’s greatest biosurveillance operation.Olivia needs to be COVID tested twice-weekly as a condition of participating in...
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The Bed
Twenty-five years ago my grandmother was planning a visit to PEI for the first time. She’d been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, so was operating under “if not now, when?” rules. My only significant...
View ArticleNo.6 Collaborations
In the liner notes to No.6 Collaborations, Ed Sheeran writes:This record was based on one I made in 2010 called No.5 Collaborations Project with a load of artists I liked. I had a little folder on my...
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Please hold, Spring will be right with you…
Your call is very important to us. CyclingWinterSpring
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The Day I Rained on Parades
On Monday night our small group of improv class students performed our first show for other people. A small group of other people. And friends and family other people at that. But other people...
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56
A montage of photos of the number 56, from the Flickr group No. 56I turn 56 years old today. Two times twenty-eight.If I live as long as my great-great-grandfather Than–97–then I still have 41 years...
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The Boy on the Bus
I rode public transit this morning for the first time in almost three years: the early hour meant the bus was deserted—just me and two others—and the icy sidewalks, left over from Monday’s snowfall,...
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Send Stephen Away, Please
Stephen Southall has been my friend for 35 years, since we met in the summer of 1987 in Peterborough.Over the years we’ve known each other I’ve spent time with many of the Southall clan—Carol and...
View ArticlePEI Pen Guy
My friend Stephen started a YouTube channel: PEI Pen Guy. If you’re a pen nerd, it’s golden. It’s also a testament to how a person with a phone, a tripod, and passion about something can become a...
View ArticleAnswers
James A. Reeves is a such wonderful writer:York Minster is the largest Gothic cathedral north of the Alps, and it hangs from the sky like lace. Whenever I see these colossal palaces to God, it’s...
View ArticleThe One Where I Almost Canter
Last week and this I’ve been learning to canter Jack the Horse. It’s a whole new ballgame, and one that I’m, so far, only just touching the edges of.The “canter switch” on Jack is to put pressure on...
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Cultivating Hope
One of the many delightful things about L. Is her love of tiny interventions into public spaces, a love I share.Over the last two months we’ve been plotting together to do something over Easter...
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Pen Pal Peter's Top Five Fountain Pens
Stephen B. Macinnis came along to the shop table this morning and we recorded an episode of his fountain pen show, talking about my five favourite fountain pens.Delicious nerdery.Stephen B....
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Report PEI Road Problems by Text Message
Dating a woman with Ben Franklin hours has been transformative: I was up at 5:30 this morning, and out on my bicycle across to Stratford for coffee at 6:30. It was a brisk morning, but I’ve learned...
View ArticleStephen Reviews my Rotring Core Fountain Pen.L
Stephen was so taken with my Rotring Core fountain pen that he borrowed it and dedicated an entire video to it.Fountain PensRotringStephen Macinnis
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