I felt even more kinship when I learned of the book that Graham crafted, following Kathryn’s death in 2020, Memento Mori : ...

The title of the book (and this post) is an homage to Just Mary Stories, a CBC Radio program that my mother listened to as a ...

Lisa marks her birthday as the halfway point of summer, and as her birthday was this week, it seems like a good time to ...

Tonight, echo of that, I’m overnight at Acadia University in Wolfville. It’s $85 a night, no breakfast included. But it’s ...

Did you know there’s an open map of memorial benches? There weren’t any added on PEI yet, so I added Catherine’s bench in the Gardens of Hope, and the bench in Victoria Park in memory of Lisa’s ...

The utility of the pact isn’t statistical, though (output, rather than outcome): it’s been a nudge toward building a habit, and that nudge has become linked to being thirsty, and feeling the positive ...

There’s a feeling I get at the drug store blood pressure machine, the feeling that comes from wanting to win at blood pressure. I find myself breathing deeply, trying to will my blood to stop having ...

Since I migrated this blog to a Hetzner server, I’ve been paying attention to the “Graphs” tab of the server dashboard to see how the capacity of the server matches the traffic I’m expecting it to ...

Some helpful advice from the postmistress at the Charlottetown Post Office this morning. If you have standard stamps, which right now are $1.44 singly or $1.24 in books, these can be used like this ...

I don’t understand the role of this Bridging humanity and efficiency video from Health PEI — is it marketing? celebration? politics? education? — but it’s well-produced, and uncommonly clear for ...

Laurie Brown interviews Leif Vollebekk for Pondercast. Like she says, “There is nothing better than discovering a new artist you love ...

We had occasion to cancel Eastlink Internet service this month. And it took the entire month to do so. There’s no way to cancel online. There’s no way to email a request. The Eastlink toll-free number ...