Dan Misener: The Lyon Year
We didn’t plan to visit Lyon on our trip to France: technically this was because we had a “no revisiting places one or the other of us has already been” (with an exception for Paris). Lisa had passed...
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Open Road Ahead
Day two on my bicycle for 2023. A late start. It’s like flying. Flying.CyclingVictoria Park
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Bicycle Picnics in Charlottetown
As the generous L2 made us breakfast in bed this morning, our planned breakfast meal of smoked salmon bagels got shunted ahead to lunch.“I propose that we take the lunch, get on our bicycles, and go...
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"Do you like pineapple?"
“Do you like pineapple?”, Lisa asked me this morning, as we were sitting on the couch, in the peace between breakfast and the school run.Lisa and I met 516 days ago. Today was the day we broached...
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Les folies sont les seules choses qu'on ne regrette jamais
As I am a lover of post offices, especially ones overseas, I mailed myself a postcard home from France. It arrived yesterday, 15 days after I mailed it from the post office at 30 Rue de Reuilly in...
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The Shed OG Reopens
When The Shed took on the coffee stand at the new Charlottetown Library, they closed the original location, in the old Legion on Pownal Street, to focus on the new project.After almost a year, that...
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Fiona Coffee Table
A 30 year old tree, felled by Hurricane Fiona, lives another day as a coffee table at The Shed.Hurricane FionaThe ShedDesignCoffee
View Article"Naši ideali včasih ne ustrezajo realnosti"
From an interview in Outsider about the Robida Collective project The Village as House:Vse te dejavnosti so neke vrste poskusi premikov, ki včasih tudi ne uspejo (nasmeh). Naši ideali včasih ne...
View ArticleGrief and Mother's Day
David Kessler has a free online series, Mother’s Day Grief that runs Tuesday, May 9. It’s easy to forget, on days like Mother’s Day, that what some greet with joy and celebration, others greet as a...
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Grapefruitade
We went to Haru the other night, the Korean fried chicken joint on Grafton Street in the old Downtown Deli space. The highlight for me was the “grapefruitade,” which is everything a fancy...
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Europe in Nine Magazine Shops
I had coffee with Guy, in Basel, in late 2010: he was there scouting for a move, and his modus operandi was to scout for interesting agglomerations of coffee shops, bookstores, etc., and then look for...
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Canadian Tire Digital Price Tags
Canadian Tire has now completely switched over to digital price tags, wireless e-ink shelf displays that show the item name, price, and barcode.Under the hood I imagine this both saves hundreds of...
View Article"There are things that can be washed and things that can't be washed."
The Q&A page at Laundry Holiday in Shikokuchuo, Japan, is a model for other laundromats. For example:Q. I’m using it for the first time, is it okay? A. Please use it with confidence.and:Q. Can I...
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Singing and Dancing Pete
At the end of April our improv class had a friends-and-family showcase at the Benevolent Irish Society hall. Hannah Kilchyk was the show photographer, and she captured this photo of me in action. I’m...
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Time Equals Temperature
My brain loves a good numerical coincidence. TimeWeatherTemperature
View ArticleThe Last Egg
From The Last Egg:We do very well for ourselves, given the circumstances, but the stark reality is: we won’t see fresh eggs for another five full months. Another facet of our weird, weird adventure...
View ArticleFacing Forward
We are spending the week some blocks north, at the house shared by my mother and my brother and sister-in-law. We’re taking care of the cats, while Mike and Karen are taking a much-deserved break in...
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