But what is the best song in the world? It’s Both Sides Now, by Joni Mitchell. Is his cover better than the original? I don’t know. But what a lovely cover it is. (I found my way to The Tallest Man on ...

So today, with a rare day free from other commitments, Lisa and I took a day trip to Sackville, New Brunswick, the place that ...

Next I set up the lettepress with a piece of “perf bar,” hardened steel teeth that can punch a perforation in paper. It’s ...

This certainly describes my father’s parents, who cultivated a thriving garden in the yard of their house at 97 Mary Street in Brantford, Ontario. They would have inherited this from my Ukrainian and ...

Harry Holman recently published an account of a wintertime journey from Charlottetown to Halifax in 1867, over two posts: one, two. While the tale of the journey across the Northumberland Strait is ...

Ten years ago, at pei.consuming.ca, I released a web app that displayed the current Prince Edward Island electricity load, and the proportion of that load being met by wind energy generation. Ten ...

I had an appointment with my nurse practitioner at 9:15 a.m today, during which I had some blood drawn to allow them to run some tests. I got a call back from her office at 1:45 p.m. with the results ...

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Our printshop has ended up, for reasons neither Lisa nor I can remember, with an uncommon amount of yellow ink. Some of this yellow in is Akua Diarylide Yellow, which is a rich, lovely yellow that ...

I was proud to play a small role in this week’s episode of the CBC Radio This is PEI podcast. I am, it seems, the canonical source of the audio and video of the Peter Pan Burger Basket $1.99 ...