Looptail g. Just down the street from our temporary house in Mexico City. Books about food. What’s not to love about Librería ...
It’s not that I didn’t know that Lisa spoke Spanish, but it’s another thing entirely to listen to her speak Spanish to a taxi driver for an hour, wending through Mexico City traffic: like waking up ...
Stephen died on Saturday. I hadn’t talked to Stephen in more than a year. Our last conversation was prompted by a one sentence email from him: I need to talk to you.
I’m happy to report that I’ve found the best air compressor in town, and it’s in Stratford, at the Mel’s PetroCan: This compressor is free, it works, and it lets you dial in your desired PSI, and ...
Our Dutch friends, printers Martijn van der Blom and Roy Scholten, have launched a fundraising campaign for a book about printing with LEGO, The Hilversum Method: In 2023 we made our first book, ...
I got curious about what seems to be the sudden transformation of construction-at-height from using scaffolding to using ...
One of the standard questions they ask at the admitting desk at Queen Elizabeth Hospital here in Charlottetown is “have you had any fall in the last three months?” Ever since I broke my arm in July, I ...
Earlier this year, we prepared a guide for our Home Exchange guests that, among other things, points them to shops and restaurants in the area that we like. When I looked the new address up, and found ...
My education as a letterpress printer was helped greatly by printing coffee bags for ROW142, the coffee shop up the street from the print shop. Our arrangement was simple: I printed the bags, they ...
Where I won’t have to deal with stickers on fruit! I bought some oranges at Sobeys the other day; sure enough, every orange had a 4012 sticker on it, a number I had to type into the self-checkout ...
And very popular; here’s the parking lot at supper time yesterday: Not only are the tacos very good, but the view is even better: Lord knows I’ve had my disagreements with Mr. Banks, the proprietor, ...
I went into The Bookmark this afternoon for one last look around before they close their Queen Street location this weekend in preparation for their move around the corner to Kent Street. Realizing ...