Sunday Night TV
William Denton had his letter read on a BBC show:“Thank you. All best wishes from Toronto,” says Bill, but I was really taken by Bill’s little CV at the end of his email: “Librarian, artist and...
View ArticleGuess what. We got lost.
Wouter writes about heterogeneous hiking signage:Here’s where things already start to go wrong. You’d think that an orange “Plus” is always the longer route, but no. This is dependent on the site you...
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Laura Drever Sketches Orkney
Laura Drever sketches her Orkney landscape:My pencil case – one I made when I was 10 years old, with Laura hand stitched on it – has been coming walks with me. For many years, it stayed in the studio...
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Truck Share?
I don’t believe U-Haul is “sharing” their truck, any more than an airline is “sharing” their seat with me.
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Alan Stanley in The Guardian on restaurant patios that aren’t accessible to all:There is no excuse for not making all new seasonal outdoor eating and drinking areas completely available to all....
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i don't mind what happens
A gift for L. for our six month anniversary, reflected back to me in photograph today to see afresh. Printed on my Golding Jobber No. 8 last week, using a new font of wooden type from Letterpress...
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On Ramp
I’m very proud of my landlords at St. Paul’s Church for tenaciously working to make the Parish Hall accessible to all: the new ramp at the back of the hall is part of a larger project that will involve...
View ArticleIt's 8 times more expensive to get to the shore and back with gasoline vs....
L.’s place by the shore–she insists I should say by the beach, but my patrician tendencies won’t allow that–is 50 km from town, meaning a round trip is a nice even 100 km.Her gasoline-powered SUV has...
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Sunshine
We had coffee with a friend on the deck at The Gallery yesterday afternoon, and L. took this photo of me, with the Basilica in the background. Seeing myself through another’s eyes.The GalleryPhotos
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Bao Shack
I’ll get over the move of the Trailside from Mount Stewart to town. Eventually. But I’m a staunch nostalgist, and the Trailside was a magic place—truly magic—where performers gave their best...
View ArticlePotsdamer Sea
From Potsdamer Sea by Geoff Manaugh:The SCUBA divers of the Potsdamer Sea now feel like mascots of that time, dream figures submerged in the waves of a future their work enabled, swimming through...
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One of those times when my 3D printer proved handy...
I managed to break the cover of my newly-arrived paperd.ink soon after unpacking it–my own fault.Fortunately, they provide 3D models of the enclosure parts, which I was able to load right into Cura and...
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Well, that worked!
The quotes example for the paperd.ink is serving up a random quote to my display (er, paper?) every hour.paperd.inkLily TomlinPhotoReinventorium
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I’ll swap your bike for my lawnmower
One of the challenges of living across two households is that on occasion big stuff ends up on the wrong campus.Like this morning, when I had L’s bike and she had my lawnmower.The solution: I popped...
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33 Ways Not To Screw Up Your Journalism
I had a curious conversation with one of my favourite authors last month, a privilege and a joy. It was a conversation about work and creativity, and he pointed me to Chip Scanlan as an important...
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Garden Tabled
My talented neighbour Doug noticed that our garden table was languishing away against the fence in our back yard, and offered to rescue it. This week he returned it, freshly sanded, with the legs...
View ArticleNot Heavy Early
Personable CBC Radio host Matthew Rainnie and I, both fans of WKRP in Cincinnati, are fond of reminding each other of the episode where Howard Hesseman’s “Dr. Johnny Fever” character returns to the...
View Article“chasing a dream is oftentimes more engrossing than the dream itself”
Chip Scanlan interviewed Jeff Pearlman and asked the question “What has been the biggest surprise of your writing life?”. His answer:My dream from boyhood was to become a Sports Illustrated writer. It...
View ArticleFeeling fine for now, going down the road…
Stan Rogers sings Down The Road by Mary McCaslin at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, CA in May 1983.Five days later he died in a plane crash. He was 33 years old.Stan RogersMusicMary McCaslin
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