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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...