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Satisfaction
These days the bulk of my personal satisfaction in life comes from success at roof raking.Last night, during a storm that dumped 50 cm of snow on the city, I made two trips out, followed by a more...
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New Hampshire Bound
I’m New Hampshire-bound this afternoon, flying down through Boston to spend a week with my longtime colleagues at Yankee Publishing in Dublin.I’ve been visiting Dublin for 20 years, 3 or 4 times a...
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By dint of my role with the PEI Home and School Federation, I’ve become a member of the PEI Learning Partners Advisory Council, a new body conjured by Premier MacLauchlan to provide counsel on all...
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Chips, 35¢
Ever since brother Johnny decamped to the west coast last July, I’ve been all alone in the Reinventorium. Sure the folks next door at The Guild are always ready with a cheery “hello,” and I have Anne...
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Eventbrite in New Hampshire
If there’s a constant that cuts across campaigns this New Hampshire Primary season, it’s Eventbrite: almost all of the candidates — except Hillary Clinton, who runs her own service — are using it to...
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Starting the Day Right
I’m starting Primary Day at the Peterborough Dinner, a ubiquitous stop on the Presidential campaign trail. Mostly deserted today, as the campaigning is all but over.
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Ballot Boxes
I went across the street to Dublin Town Hall to watch my friend Sherin vote in the Presidential Primary. There are two ballot boxes, one for the red Republican ballots, one for the blue Democratic...
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You Only Think You Know Who's Running for President
We here a lot about the big-name candidates running for President, but almost nothing about the rest. Here are the two sample ballots posted on the wall of the Dublin, NH polling station listing the...
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At Jeb Bush Primary Night HQ
We tried our hand at visiting Trump HQ near the airport, but there was a lineup of 500+ people waiting to get in so we redirected to Bush HQ at Manchester Community College.Where, relatively speaking,...
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Bush vs. Clinton
Twelve winters ago my friend Sherin and I ventured into Manchester, NH to experience Presidential Primary night at candidate John Kerry’s headquarters in the Holiday Inn.Tonight, three general election...
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Satisfaction
These days the bulk of my personal satisfaction in life comes from success at roof raking.Last night, during a storm that dumped 50 cm of snow on the city, I made two trips out, followed by a more...
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The Third Toadstool
Toadstool Books is a three-location independent bookseller that, for my money, is among the best-organized, best-merchandised in the world.I’ve been to the Peterborough, NH location many times — it’s...
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The View from Here
I lollygagged a bit too long en route from New Hampshire to Logan Airport — lingered over coffee, found just the right architecture book for Oliver, made an impromptu Chipotle stop for supper – and...
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Sunset over Hamilton
My brother Mike and his partner Karen live in a 6th floor condo in Burlington that faces west. I snapped this photo of their sunset tonight.
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Last month I mentioned that I’d signed up to print Shakespeare’s Sonnet № 55.Somebody beat me to the punch, and I was asked for a second choice. I selected Sonnet № 99 and this time I was successful....
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Buying Summerhill
In 1967 the National Film Board of Canada released Summerhill, a film about the British school of the same name. I first saw the film in 1985 when my education professor showed it to our class at Trent...
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The Walking
By virtue of my work with the PEI Home and School Federation, I’ve been attending meetings related to the SHAPES survey this week.SHAPES is a survey that students complete, starting in grade 5, about...
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New Transit Signs
Kudos to T3 Transit on the design of new signs for bus stops in Charlottetown: a big improvement in clarity!
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