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, ...
For the past 6 weeks our neighbours have had a crew on site every day working on their complex century-old mansard roof. Being cooperative neighbours, we’ve traded our driveway for their garage so ...
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 ...
This is a story about how I designed and printed a postcard that illustrates typographic ligatures. I will mail you one. Lisa and I were browsing the printmaking section of the Mount Allision ...
I have largely been away from creative work for the last 3 months, as my broken elbow made working with my hands variously impossible, difficult, or uncomfortable. But I’m building range and strength, ...