In search of a relatively flat cycling route that would show us an interesting cross-section of Halifax, we found our way to ...

Bill McKinnen, in A Question of Margin: One way to think about the climate crisis is that we are systematically reducing the margin on which we live on this planet. There were always places where ...

We all need at least one Belgian friend, and mine is Wouter. We met via our blogs, through mutual connections to Ton and Frank, and through our interest in fountain pens. Wouter joined our Pen & ...

Calvin Trillin, in the introduction to 40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering, by Alice Waters: Although I tend to prefer eating in the upstairs café at Chez Panisse rather than in the ...

As we turned onto the Hollow Mountain Road this afternoon on our way to the Delaps Cove Trail, we saw a car ahead with its 4-way flashers on. We rolled up to see if they needed help, and discovered a ...

We bailed out of a 61 km cycle from Antwerp to Dendermonde today because the weather forecast called for rain, wind, and thunder. The last thing we wanted to do was to get caught on an exposed polder ...

On Friday, I replaced the Ring doorbell camera on our house, one that’s been there for more than a decade, with a Reolink doorbell camera. The Reolink doesn’t require a subscription, its video streams ...

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 ...

We are off to Europe—Brussels via Montreal—in a couple of hours. On my way back from returning my last remaining library book this morning I spotted the first daffodil in our front garden. We are ...

From Do Things You’ll Love Yourself For by David Cain: And Present Self definitely sees Future Self as someone else. Think of how often you feel at odds with this ...

This ad, in this month’s Rural Delivery, is perfect: it explains the service, it explains why it’s important.

It’s an awfully long time since Upstreet closed, and stopped making their Libra non-alcoholic beer. I spotted this cache in a ...