“dreams so fragile they can dissolve before they’re spoken”
Beautiful writing:Words held back, feelings not felt, stories misunderstood, assumptions not tested, details forgotten or suppressed, joys “undeserved”, shames buried or carried too long, excitements...
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"I can also learn to live unseen and unheard."
Laurie Brown, and the Pondercast podcast she partners, are dipping below the horizon.In writing about this, Laurie describes this “disappearing act”:So, what’s next?? There is more art waiting in the...
View Article"When She Says She’s a Girl, Trust Her"
From The Transgender Family Handbook, an essay by Theresa Thorn, When She Says She’s a Girl, Trust Her. In part:In hindsight, my firstborn, who had been assigned male at birth, had been trying to...
View ArticleToo Many Zucchini
Jeremy Cherfas is in the Italian countryside, and has too many zucchini:It is a pretty isolated spot, which means the old trick of driving into town with a basket of produce and depositing it on the...
View ArticleBubblegum and Basketballs
I had Kraft Dinner for lunch on Sunday.For normal humans this would be unremarkable, but it was my first time eating Kraft Dinner. I’m 57 years old.At some point I simply decided that I wouldn’t like...
View ArticleAsking Questions
My friend Ian lamented, in 2004, in but enough about me, our societal lack of intrapersonal curiosity:Having just returned from another evening deep in the flats of Hollywood, I (shockingly) have a...
View ArticleWhy I Recommend Fastmail
For almost a decade I’ve been using Fastmail as my email provider. Switching to Fastmail followed 15 years of various and sundry ways of hosting my own email, on various and sundry hosts I owned or...
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The Receiver Coffee T-Shirt
It’s summertime, and I’m wearing a T-shirt today, a rarity for me, as my uniseasonal wardrobe is anchored in short-sleeved button-down shirts.This shirt is a special one: two years ago this month I...
View ArticleDiscovering URL Scroll-To-Text Fragment
I thought my finger was on the pulse of significant browser developments, but this one I missed completely: URL Scroll-To-Text Fragment.Here’s the URL for a post on Lisa’s blog, for...
View ArticleWriting advice from Matt Stone
Matt Stone, quoted in Anatomy of a Breakthrough:“What should happen between every beat you’ve written down is either the word therefore or but.” He sketches the structure using a more concrete example:...
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Growing the Edge of Imagination
For someone who holds himself out to be in the imagination business, I have remarkably little skill in being able to imagine physical spaces not as they are.Witness this photo of the end of our...
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Unintentional Art
The paper towel used to blot my watercolour brush at the Black & White.WatercolourBlack & White
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Poached Eggs
Tamar Adler, in An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace, on poached eggs:I’ve heard of a lot of perfect ways to poach an egg, I’m sure they work. The problem with them is that to poach eggs...
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Please wash your bar clams here
Every time I fear that Prince Edward Island has lost its mojo…Argyle Shore
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Orange Socks
A photo of me, at improv class, taken by Laurie Murphy. My mother has taken to telling me that I seem preternaturally tall of late; until now, I’ve never seen it. Improv
View ArticleJim MacAulay
I was sad to read yesterday of the death of Jim MacAulay. The public service contributions of the MacAulay family to are legion, and I crossed paths with each of the MacAulay brothers over the...
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Where should I get auto insurance?
Back in 2001 I related my history of auto insurance, a path that led me, on Prince Edward Island, first to Gordon Full, a small office, staffed by two people, that was responsive and friendly beyond...
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