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Saturday at the Beach
I am not a natural beach-goer, especially here on Prince Edward Island where that means saltwater beaches, which I’ve never quite taken to.But having not as much as dipped my toes in the ocean this...
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Alien's Declaration
I visited our safe deposit box at Provincial Credit Union today for the first time in 12 years, looking for a copy of Oliver’s birth certificate. I didn’t find it. But I did find this 1924 receipt from...
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Early Amazon.com Packing Slip
This wasn’t first order I placed on Amazon.com – that came the year before, and resulted in this email exchange with Jeff Bezos– but this is still a very old Amazon.com packing slip. Twenty years old,...
View ArticleLicense Plate Letter Combinations
On the way to school on Thursday, Oliver and I saw a personalized Prince Edward Island license plate that was 8-letters long, the longest that will fit on a standard license plate. I seized this as a...
View ArticlemBC time
From my friend Laurie Kingston, who taught me much of what I know about metastatic breast cancer, years before Catherine’s diagnosis, a pointer to mBC Time, a video by Teva Harrison. It is as Laurie...
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Kingston Cows
Back in late 1990s, Peter Richards, Kevin O’Brien and I went thirdsies on an Apple QuickTake digital camera. It was among the first of its kind, and it was amazing. One day I took a bunch of photos of...
View ArticleResuming Pushing to Twitter
Three months ago, with a lot of hullabaloo, I stopped pushing links to new posts here on the blog to Facebook and Twitter.While the change hasn’t affected my relationship with Facebook at all (other...
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Isaac Newton Lays Cable
The cable-laying ship Isaac Newton pulled into the Port of Charlottetown late last night in advance of its work to lay the new submarine electricity cables under the Northumberland Strait to New...
View ArticleLast Email from my Grandmother
My grandmother Nettie was born in 1915 and died in 1999, missing the millennium by 9 months, and Oliver’s birth by 18.Sometime in the mid-1990s, my father equipped her with an older computer and set up...
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Aboard the Isaac Newton Cable Laying Ship in Charlottetown
A fortunate set of circumstances led me to be offered a tour of the Isaac Newton cable laying ship this morning, and I happily seized the opportunity.The ship is here in the Port of Charlottetown for a...
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The Mystery of the Rectangular Fishing Nets in the Harbour
A few weeks ago, on Oliver’s birthday, we took a drive up to Georgetown to see the Spanish galleon that was in port. As we walked from the parking lot, along the wharf, to the ship, I noticed a...
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My Sideline as a Swedish Home Stager
When my friends Olle and Luisa last moved house, in 2014, I was proud to have some of my letterpress work featured in one of the real estate photos taken to help sell their apartment:This fall it was...
View ArticlePaul MacNeill on Perspective
Eastern Graphic publisher Paul MacNeill’s column this week is a well-worded call for humility and humanity in journalism and politics both. Paul writes, in part:Weekly I have the luxury of picking a...
View ArticleWhat to do when robots take over Island Information Service?
IslandInformationService-DeadEnd.mp3One of the most helpful services offered by our provincial government here in Prince Edward Island has always been Island Information Service.By calling the...
View Article"That's a good question, Bruce..."
This morning on Twitter I asked“Why do interview subjects say ‘that’s a great question’? I’ve never said that, and never understood it.”The question brought some interesting responses from journalists...
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Barry Hicken's Green Pen
Barry Hicken served as Prince Edward Island’s Minister of Environmental Resources in the Catherine Callbeck Liberal government in the mid-1990s, a time when I was working with the province on the first...
View ArticleThat's a good touché...
A few days ago, I mused aloud, both here and on Twitter, “Why do interview subjects say ‘that’s a great question’? I’ve never said that, and never understood it.”I seems this was an unwitting lie;...
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The End of Summer
With the end of October comes the opening of Victoria Row in downtown Charlottetown — the spine that connects my house to my office — to vehicles for the winter. Summer truly is over.
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The Situation in Roumania
If you are reading the headlines of The Guardian newspaper 100 years on, you’re now making your way through the fall of 1916, and no more than a day or two passes without an update from the front in...
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