Generalism
Wouter writes a loving elegy to generalism, terrain I’ve been foraging through my entire life.My stock self-description is “Writer • Printer • Developer,” a variation of what Wouter references as the...
View Article2023 Charlottetown Levee Schedule
This is the 2023 levee schedule for New Year’s Day, January 1, 2023 for Charlottetown and Prince Edward Island.This is the 18th year I’ve been collating and confirming this information. If you’re new...
View ArticleExécuté avec brio
The fog horn blared as we woke up on New Years Day. Outside it was rainy, unseasonably warm. Not ideal leveeing weather, but certainly better than those years when it was minus 20 degrees with snow...
View ArticleSticktoitiveness?
Brandon writes:I didn’t realize that we all must make a conscious choice to invest in things or not to. In my mind, once you liked something, you liked it for life. There was no such thing as growing...
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Data Closet
I found a vestigial electric outlet inside a cupboard in our library, and thus was born the data closet. It houses an AmpliFI wireless access point, the Raspberry Pi that feeds our water and...
View ArticleWhere is it?
From Anna Havron’s Analog Office blog, a suggestion to keep a canonical Where Is It? file, a pointer to where all the things are kept.I spend 3% of my energy worrying about where the safe deposit box...
View ArticleHow Catherine Died
Catherine died three years ago today.The next day, I wrote this email to a good friend, subject line How Catherine Died:Oliver1 spent yesterday in the Palliative Care Centre; they kindly set aside the...
View ArticleJerry Coltane
Despite—or, actually, because of—it being an emotionally charged day yesterday it was an important night to go to improv class. Lisa, bless her heart, cleared the way for me, and managed the household...
View ArticleAn Abundance of Syrup
We offered to Olivia a supper of takeout-inspired-by-Catherine last night.Being a completist, Olivia decided that this mean that we needed to get entrees and desserts from bothThe Old Triangle and from...
View Article“The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget”
Kent Nerburn writes about life as a cab driver, and of one particular night:When I arrived at the address, the building was dark except for a single light in a ground-floor window. Under these...
View ArticleShenanigansett
So You Want to Start a Town, by Ryan McManus. (via Why is this interesting?).
View Article"I decided I can do something with a bigger impact."
Sonya Emerick was elected to the Minneapolis School Board. Her reason for running:I had two choices: to move into litigation with the district or to try to move where I had access to influence...
View ArticleLaurie Murphy, Spin Time DJ
My friend and improv teacher Laurie Murphy took a turn as the Spin Time DJ on CBC Mainstreet this afternoon, talking about her return to PEI, how she first got involved in improv, and what she’s up to...
View ArticleA Message About Solos
In this Facebook thread kicked off by a friend and co-conspirator from the Peterborough days, Clifford Maynes, much is said about guitar solos, from people who know. Starting with:A message about solos...
View ArticleDating After Death
The Dating After Death episode of the Widow We Do Now? podcast covers a lot of terrain that’s very familiar to me. Anita and Mel interview the host of the datingafterdeath podcast. DatingGriefDeath
View ArticleAnnals of Phlegm
I am entering week two of the Mother Of All Chest Colds.Things started off slowly, a week ago Wednesday, with a fever of 38.6ºC for about 12 hours; the fever broke, all was well. I made English...
View ArticleTwo Good Islanders
We lost two wise, compassionate Islanders this week, both dedicated to service.John Andrew died on Tuesday. I met John when he ran for the Green Party following the death of Josh Underhay, and found...
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Cold cold cold
The Saturday “feels like” temperature in Charlottetown is forecast to be -45°C. Oh my. WeatherTemperature
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Salmon and Sticky Rice
We made Ella Risbridger’s Stuck in a Bookshop Salmon and Sticky Rice for supper last night. I’d resolved to make something outside my typical flavour palette and this certainly was: marinated grilled...
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"The curious history of 219½ Hunter"
I was happy to be a source for the article The curious history of 219½ Hunter, Peterborough’s itsy bitsy storefront in Peterborough Currents. 219½ played an outsized role in my life, and it’s nice to...
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