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 ...

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.

The Al Purdy A-Frame Association just released its 2025 Annual Report. It contains both a review of the organization’s work to nurture the country’s poets, and also sentences like “Geotechnical and ...

St-Laurent set against the Charlottetown waterfront, on a mid-March day with the combination of ice still in the harbour and an outside temperature of 8ºC creating a foggy skyline.

The news that my longtime friend, neighbour, and mentor Catherine Hennessey died this week at age 92, leaves me at a loss for words. I am flooded by scores of memories—hauling her pig to the butcher ...

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 ...

With nudges from Lisa and many other sources, I’m again realizing the importance of hydration to general health. Today this led me to this Reddit thread that provides an Apple Shortcut that will let ...

See also Art Space and The one where I finally find a way to hang my collection of ephemera on the wall… ...

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.

Terry Godier on “phantom obligation” and RSS readers: There’s a particular kind of guilt that visits me when I open my feed reader after a few days away. It’s not the guilt of having done something ...