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 ...

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 ...

I got to know George Guimond many years ago, both through his work as an architect here in Charlottetown and by virtue of his family being neighbours, in a country sense, when we lived out on the ...

We switched our home Internet to Purple Cow (referral link), a Nova Scotia-based provider that resells Eastlink at a discount (we have a 100 Mbps connection for $60/month). This after years of beaming ...

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 ...

As I write, my mother is in the other room on a Zoom call with a group of longtime friends in Ontario. They know each other from a Burlington YMCA morning fitness class; when the pandemic hit, they ...

Back in the day, text adventures were games with a natural language interface. Zork (1977) was the first well-known one. This surfaced a long-forgetten memory from when I was a teenager, likely about ...

Writing yesterday about being in Lincoln Centre with Salman Rushdie prompted me to recall the other time, the very same week, we ended up in the same room. Catherine was 4 months pregnant when, in the ...

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 ...

Tonight it was The Mandalorian and Grogu at King’s Theatre in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia with young L. Unrelenting creature-vs.-spaceman action, with adorable space-Beanie Baby sidekicks. The 100+ ...

From Epos Daimon, The Antifascist Magic School for Teens by mssv: Let’s say you want to teach teenagers about the dangers of toxic communities like the manosphere. You could talk about the politics ...