My friend Yvonne, who I’ve known since we were in our early 20s, sent me a lovely birthday card, and enclosed this photo. It was taken sometime in the early 1990s on the shore of Moosehorn Lake, just ...

I am Peter Rukavina and this is my blog. I am a writer, letterpress printer, and a curious person. To learn more about me, read my /now, look at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, read presentations ...

The track Coma / Smoke, from Hailaker’s 2019 self-titled album, has been on frequent rotation here since I discovered it a few weeks ago. On first listening I texted Lisa: There’s a lot to love about ...

Break rules that exist only to create convenience for one group of people. Break rules that are immoral even if they’re not illegal. Whenever you can, break rules that exist only to uphold a system.

Our home for the three nights we were in the Valley was a Home Exchange in Coldbrook that was just what we needed: clean, well-equipped, central. Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

If there’s a lesson about getting on in prison it’s that everywhere there are human communities that don’t rest on authority and coercion and that people form their own neworks of mutual support.

Bookbinder JS is a heartbreaking work of genius. It’s a standalone JavaScript-based application for imposition. If you have a PDF file that you want to bind into a book, this is the tool you want.

If you search for help downloading all of your Flickr photos, along with the metadata, you will, no doubt, get trapped in a jungle of old advice about how you must do this page by page from your ...

I received the sad news this morning that my friend Allan Rankin has died. I was introduced to Allan many years ago: he and Roy Johnstone and I got together to see about having me make websites for ...

Last Monday morning I went over the print shop with some creative energy. I’d been mulling around an idea for an alphabet book, one I might return to. But an alphabet book didn’t seem, well, meaty. Or ...

Via University of Winds, a link to Open Infrastructure Map, useful here on Prince Edward Island for seeing a map of Maritime Electric and Summerside’s electricity infrastructure.

John Dale was right: once you start baking with sourdough, it’s hard to stop. This morning we celebrated Lisa for Stepmother’s Day with sourdough cinnamon rolls.