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 ...

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 ...

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

Every time I visit Province House I find something new. This time it was the skylights, which I’d never noticed before. They run all the way from the second floor up to the third floor and the roof ...

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 ...

I went looking for information about the Canada Fitness program today, and I couldn’t find anything. Perhaps it’s dead? During my elementary school years, each spring we were forced to engage in a set ...

From the official rules for the Tim Hortons Roll Up the Rim to Win Contest (PDF): NOTE: The cup size names are the same in Canada and the U.S. but the ounces differ. In Canada the cup sizes are 10oz ...

Because I was raised in an era when we were willing to conceive of mobile devices as servers as much as clients, it’s always bothered me that the ability to mount an Android phone’s storage on a ...

I was writing to my Dutch friend Frank this morning about his post Renewal. Reflecting on my own move away from paid work 18 months ago, I realized that work, for decades, had been my all-powerful ...

Remember ALLEX and ELSIR and the Fish Points, two rabbit holes I fell into earlier in the week? Well part of my struggle for coming to understand this world of aeronautical waypoints has been my weak ...

In the summer of 1950, Ben Carlin and his wife Elinore left Halifax, Nova Scotia in a World War II amphibious jeep, nicknamed Half-Safe, bound, ultimately, for Birmingham, England. Carlin’s book ...