Who are you (again)?
Back in the beginning, I asked you in the readership to tell me who you are. It remains a great little snapshot of all of you. I’d like to ask you to do it again: just make a comment to this post with...
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On to Berlin
When we last talked I was in Enschede in The Netherlands. Three days later and now I am in Berlin in Germany. I took the train across the top of Germany on Tuesday evening, helpfully shepherded to the...
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Bill & Marj Mallard, ages 91 and 90 respectively, filmed at the 27th Annual Bluegrass & Old Time Music Society Festival in Rollo Bay, PEI by the Eastern Graphic. It will remove all fear you...
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My Summer Makeation
First you make the wood type: Then, of course, you need something to carry the wood type home in, you so you make a type box: Another wonderful day in my “makeaction” here in Europe (see also the wood...
View ArticleSo rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought.
Olle and I sat on a bench under a grove of trees in Pildammsparken tonight reviewing the day that had just been. It was near-dark, and we were alone save for a woman wearing fuschia skipping...
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104 Years Later
One hundred and four years ago my great-grandfather Ivan Potiahaylo, a teenager, left Ukraine for Canada. We know little of how or why he left. As far as we know he was never in contact with his...
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Closing Down the Swedish Operation
I’ve had the privilege of visiting my friends Olle and Luisa here in southern Scandinavia — sometimes Denmark, sometimes Sweden, depending on where the wind has taken them — every year for, well, as...
View ArticleMaintain Radio Silence
I arrived safely in Ukraine on Wednesday night after a smooth an efficient pair of flights on airBaltic — Copenhagen to Riga and Riga to Kiev — and was met at the airport by my cousin Aleksandra, her...
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Regus Business Lounges with TripIt Pro
I’ve been using the web service TripIt for several years: it’s a good way of organizing and sharing travel details (a lot easier than trying to manage a lot of emails) and its ability to parse air and...
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The thing about Ukrainian women...
Regular readers will know — I hope — that a sentence starting “The thing about Ukrainian women…” is something you’re unlikely to find in these pages. I’m not prone to generalizing (at least about...
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Hungry all the time...
Since I returned from Europe on Friday I’ve been hungry all the time. This is, I suspect, because my daily caloric intake in Ukraine quadrupled as the constant refrain of “eat, Peter, eat” played in...
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Incident at Bukovel
A week ago Saturday I set off in a convoy with various of my Ukrainian family to visit the Carpathian Mountains, a few hours north of my great-grandfather’s home village of Serafyntsi. It was a chilly...
View ArticleWedding in Serafyntsi
While touring the centre of Serafyntsi, my great-grandfather’s village, we happened upon a wedding party on its way to church. If I ever get married, this is the way I’d want to do it: brothers...
View ArticleDowntown Serafyntsi
On my last morning in Serafyntsi I took a walk from my cousin Maria’s house to the centre of the village. It took about 15 minutes. In the heart of the village I took a moment to drink everything in;...
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For a vegetarian, I eat a lot of rabbits...
While I might hold out myself to be an “adventurous” eater, my sense of adventure tends to be tempered by my borderline vegetarianism. I’m neither an ethical (“eating animals is bad for animals!”) nor...
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Live Marine Traffic for Charlottetown
When I was crafting up the Is there a cruise ship in Charlottetown? site I inevitably came across MarineTraffic.com, a website that aggregates together ship’s position information from receiving...
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Olle in Reverie
My friend Olle has become a full-fledged, card-carrying member of the Put This On sensibility. Among other things (constant buying of interesting-looking ties on eBay, for example), this tends to make...
View ArticleHere's The Thing
If you’re not listening to Alec Baldwin’s Here’s The Thing podcast, you really should be. Baldwin’s interview style is pitch-perfect: he interviews people like Peter Frampton, Lorne Michaels and Erica...
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I made a sign. Now it's in a movie.
Last fall I was on the selection committee for the City of Charlottetown’s micro-grant program, part of the city’s sustainability initiatives. One of the projects we selected was “Transforming a...
View ArticleHackitat
I met mackt at Forskningsavdelningen in Sweden last summer. Now he’s part of a project making a film “about political hacking, world wide.” They’re looking to raise $80,000 in the next 40 days to fund...
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