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The mobile app for GoodLife Fitness has charts for each day of the week showing how busy the gym is.

I grew up in the small village of Carlisle, Ontario.

You had me at “retro Balkan pop music night.”

Sending an email to myself with Siri.

I happened by a page that listed cashback rewards for a particular credit card the other day, and at the bottom I found this fine print: To earn the rate in each category, eligible purchases must be made with merchants assigned to that category.

Remember our backyard plum tree, the one felled by Hurricane Fiona?

From The Rest of Our Lives, by Ben Markovits (emphasis mine): The X-ray department seemed completely deserted, but then there was a light at the end of the hall, and a woman was waiting for me.

Craig Mod writes: Here’s a good example of two books in similar genres, but one full of platitudes and one of unmistakable voice: Simon Boas’ A Beginner’s Guide to Dying — it’s fine, but it reads like the kind of book someone thought they were supposed to…

Lisa and I drove out to Murray Harbour yesterday for one of the final days of the Brian Burke exhibition, Light Before Shadow.

Charlottetown is organizing Week Without Driving from October 1 to 8, 2026: How would your days change if you had to give up your car for a week?

Back on August 12, I made tweaks to this blog’s setup with a goal to improve its speed.

I’d passed by Living Grace Café, on Belvedere Avenue in Charlottetown, hundreds of times over the years, but had never even thought of going in.

Elizabeth Day interviewed David Sedaris for her How to Fail podcast, and asked him “What’s crystal meth like?”.

From The Sound of Children by Peter Miller: It would be an interesting survey, measuring the sound of children in the cities.

A few years ago my friend Stephen and I were on a drive back from visiting the Kingston, Ontario hospice where his late mother had once spent time.

We took a quick, late walk through Victoria Park tonight for Art in the Open.

First spotted at The Rustico Cannery in North Rustico last week, I saw it again today at The Gallery in Charlottetown: kombucha from Farmacy + Fermentary in tiny, perfect stubby bottles.

I am using the typewriter that Catherine Hennessey gave me to type gallery labels for a show that Lisa and I are mounting on Monday.

From Palvelukeskus Helsinki: Helsinki offers a free-of-charge hot lunch for children under the age of 16 at its playgrounds, which are open during the school summer holidays.

May I never be accused of wringing every last drop out of my tympan.

Two notable things happened this weekend: I received beautiful an email from a reader of the blog telling me that they’d spent a week reading through the archives here, and providing a lovely summary of my zeitgest.

Today was the last day for the Oh Hey coffee spot at Founders Hall, so I stopped down to have my friend Lori Joy make me a flat white.

From Comparative Literature As Core Need In Desk Research and AI As Tool by Ton Zijlstra: Put together it spells to me that when I am doing some deskresearch shining a better light on literary ‘dark matter’ becomes much more important.

The Confederation Centre of the Arts is nearing the end of a dramatic renovation.

John Flood gifted me a case of 14 pt.

Aided by a grant from the City of Charlottetown Heritage Incentive Program, we’re on a multi-year program of replacing the windows here at 100 Prince Street.

Reflecting Light from KINLEY—our neighbour here in the C1A 4R4 for a time—was released today: Reflecting Light is a five-song release built on strong pop instincts, lyrics that turn small moments into whole stories, and production that moves easily between

From The Jump?

The Copernicus Browser can be used to browser through current and historical satellite imagery: think of it like the Google Maps “Satellite” layer, more up to date, but with less resolution.

From Presentation of the Gutenberg Prize 2026 by Internationale Gutenberg-Gesellschaft: Behind this playful gesture, however, lay a serious mission.

Our This Box is for Good project has been less active over the last year, but murmering away in the background there are printers around the world creating brand new editions.