"All those in favour, signify by saying aye; contrary minded, nay"
I am chairing my first PEI Home and School Federation meeting tonight. We have a full agenda, and I’m equal parts daunted and excited.I stand on the shoulders of giants in this new role: both the...
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(More) Letter to Canadians
Work on the Confederation Country Cabinet pieces continues in the press room. After the delay waiting for capital Ks to be freshly cast, there was another pause of a few days waiting for a batch of...
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Poem for the Astronauts
There are six panels to be set and printed for the Confederation Country Cabinet. Milton Acorn’s Poem for the Astronauts is the third one I’ve completed. It’s not the longest piece by letter-count, but...
View ArticleI'm an Island Tel Customer Again
Over the last 15 years I’ve written 111 posts that mentioned Island Tel and 119 posts that mentioned Aliant, it successor company. Put together, that’s a lot of ink spilled in commentary on the phone...
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I remember the day the bus exploded right in front of the fire eater and her...
Despite myself I was always a fan of the Road to Avonlea television series. It was hokey, and not even shot on Prince Edward Island, but it was also endearing and provided a useful lens through which...
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Milton Acorn – in 3D!
Milton Acorn’s Poem for the Astronauts looks rather like a small city when set in 14 pt. Bodoni. I wasn’t happy with the original run of this Confederation Country Cabinet piece, so I reprinted tonight...
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Pete the Printer
Brenda Whiteway wrote a very nice blog post about my little part of her Confederation Country Cabinet project. She also snapped a photo of my beside the Golding Jobber № 8, which is a rare thing...
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Lionised
Catherine and Oliver and Ethan and I were the guests of the Winsloe Lions Club last night at their annual Charter Night dinner – a sort of “closing ceremonies” for the Lions year where pins and awards...
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Democracy Happens in the Engine Room
A few weeks ago, reading through the City of Charlottetown’s Pedestrian Mall Bylaw, I noticed that section 5.7 of the bylaw specifically prohibits dogs from the pedestrian mall, with one exception:No...
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First a call to the Cross Keys for a bracer...
It seemed like such a simple job: six sheets of paper, 790 words, 4,695 letters and spaces.Brenda Whiteway approached me in February to see if I’d be able and willing to typeset and print passages of...
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Free Paul Offer!
I have been buying eggs and mushrooms from Paul Offer at the Charlottetown Farmer’s Market. I know him to be a man of both good humour and exacting standards, and I feel proud to be one of his...
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Our Family Walks
After I spoke at the Winsloe Lions Club Charter Dinner last Saturday, we were presented with a lovely gift: a framed photo of Catherine, Oliver, Ethan and I walking down the Confederation Trail during...
View ArticleProfane and iconoclastic and filled with penises... (and brilliant)
While I’ve been fiddling with 2014-celebrating type over the past two weeks it’s been more than a few times that I’ve been sharing workspace with the team behind the 2014-celebrating Tall Hat...
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Untitled
Catherine and her partners Lori Joy Smith and Norma Jean Maclean are opening a show in The Gallery at The Guild on on Wednesday, June 18, 2014.Each of them has a distinct style, and, beyond that, their...
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School Bus Driver of the Year
One thing any PEI Home and School Federation past-president will tell you is that one of the highlights of the official duties of the office is the presentation of the School Bus Driver of the Year...
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Wherein we seek supper on the banks of the Rhein
The thing you don’t realize about The Amazing Race is that while it might look simple to, say, “catch the bus to the heart of Rome, find a pushcart vendor selling cashews, buy a bag, and deliver it to...
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Making Dog Poop Bag Dispensers That Matter
We made our way from Düsseldorf to Enschede, just across the Dutch-German border, on Thursday and settled in at Stadscamping de Twentse Es, which turned out to be a friendly campground with lots of...
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In the Field
Every summer when we were kids my father would go “in the field.” We assumed, I think, that every father did this, so it didn’t seem unusual: for him it meant going to a different spot on one of the...
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This is our family, and this is how we roll...
How to visit a national park that’s bicycle friendly – bicycle obsessed, in fact – with a service dog and a kid who’s averse to the tippiness of regular bikes? In the Netherlands this isn’t a problem:...
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