I Love My Daughter
There is a disquieting swell of transphobia here on Prince Edward Island this month, a movement by a small group of parents targeting the Guidelines for Respecting, Accommodating and Supporting Gender...
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From Analog Office, Mess Up Your Good, Premium, Luxury Notebooks:What about those fifth-generation stationers who go to great lengths to source wonderful paper, to find skilled craftspeople who will...
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Prince Edward Island is blessed with a progressive editorial voice in The Eastern Graphic and its publisher Paul MacNeill, whose editorial this week, Haters will never win, calls out the connection...
View ArticleLocked Groove
Colin Nagy writes about the locked groove we can fall into when travelling to familiar places:We quickly realized that we had a similar problem: the “locked groove” effect of cities you frequent for...
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Two Units
Eleven hours later, I would need two units of blood. At the time, though, I was focused on the couple across from us in the Moncton ER waiting room. A casually-dressed couple in their 60s, obviously a...
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Thoughts of Ameliasburgh
In the hamlet of Ameliasburgh, in Prince Edward County, Ontario, you will find a street, about an eighth of a mile long, that runs from County Road 19 up to the Harry Smith Conservation Area. If you...
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The 2023 Crocuses
The first crocuses appeared in the front garden at 100 Prince Street this weekend, right in time for the vernal equinox. See also 2020 (March 24), 2021 (March 12), 2022 (March 18).CrocusesPhenology
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hristmas
A testament to the kind of winter it’s been: I only made it over to the letterpress shop this morning, three months after Christmas, to put away the type from our Christmas card job. I’m eager to get...
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Make Someone’s Day
Ton related a story of how an empathetic call nine years ago had an outsized effect:The fate of anyone working to change something in how government works, or any larger organisation or system really,...
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Why I'm Voting Green in this Election
The social dynamic of living in this Lilliputian place means that politicians are far more everyday regular people than elsewhere. They are neighbours, friends, friends of friends, the people you meet...
View ArticleGetting on an Airplane Again
The last time I stepped on a plane was November 2019, a flight to Toronto, the day after my father died, to join my family in laying him to rest. In remembering my father that day, I wrote about his...
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Vacation Fitness
We walked 15 km today. Vacationing is good for fitness. It helped that it was 15°C and sunny. A birthday to remember.
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The Skinniest House in Bergheim
Our home for two nights, found through an ami à ami connection by Lisa, using her estimable French skills, after the gîtes she’d found originally wasn’t available. Four floors, 2 metres wide....
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6% to 19% in 5 stops
On buses in Lyon there are USB chargers in front of some seats. Very handy toward the end of a long day of travel, when battery is low and evening plans are still to be navigated. LyonFrancePublic...
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Within a few blocks of our Lyon apartment: Couture Shop, where you can learn to sew, guided by a professional, and Bricole Social Club, an “associative and participatory DIY workshop” that suggests we...
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BYD
Our electric rental car, a BYD Atto 3 from China. €127 for three days, from Sixt.ChinaElectric CarSixt
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