So excited to catch Thomson Highway’s ROSE, directed by Kevin Loring, music directed by John Alcorn, choreographed by Santee Smith, with a cast of 19 Indigenous performers. Plays at National Arts Centre till Apr 4 only.

Bonus post: Our Homes magazine has featured our home #renovation - which I documented in 2023 on #TeahenTales posts - in its spring 2026 issue. #design

Join Marion Adler and Heidi Sander for a unique workshop From Page to Stage: Spoken Word Performance at Stratford Public Library on Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 11:00 am Get your tickets online www.ticketscene.ca/events/5... #stratford #stratfordevents #performancetechniques

#BuyCanadian #ElbowsUp pic 2 for March 29: later shop at #Stratford Farmers' Market, Rheo Thomson Candies, Jobsite Brewery plus Niagara Speck Brothers Chardonnay. Also from left: Greenhouse celery, green beans, lettuce; 2 dozen eggs; 3 chocolate bunnies; bag of licorice & bag of chocolate mini eggs.

#BuyCanadian #ElbowsUp shop, pic 1, for March 29: South African lemons 🍋, finally! Happy I can make a lemony Easter dessert. 🇨🇦 highlights (everything to the left of the melba toasts): Carna4 dog food 🐾, Atlantic salmon, 🇨🇦 dairy and root veg (celery & onion), broth & dried mushroom for risotto.

This is so important - learn what needs to change in your home so you can continue to live and thrive there safely. Sign up for this free webinar. I'm certainly going to listen in! #FallPreventionCA @pfuselli.bsky.social @donfenn.bsky.social

Next up in the Stratford Like A Local series from Teahen Tales: A place for dancer's pose. A look at both the Yoga Collective, the longest-running studio in town, and the historic place it inhabits. #Stratford #TeahenTales #yoga #dance

I met my friend Shawna when were on a #Barcelona cooking trip with @chefannaolson.bsky.social & her husband Chef Michael Olson (not on #Bluesky). She just sent me a signed copy of Anna Cooks as a present. Ruby the #Bichon approves. Anna, think I'll try your aunt's chicken soup first. #DogsofBluesky

From the day job @parachute.ca : We've created awareness videos about the fact medications are the No. 1 source of calls to Canada's poison centres. We've been promoting these videos on social media & our partners are sharing them in their networks: #RethinkPoisons www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu-_...

#BuyCanadian #ElbowsUp shop in #Stratford #Ontario for Mar. 21: nearby greenhouse now has broccoli, green beans, greens, mushrooms, onions. Local dog treats from The Barkery. Tonight's dinner is Maritime mussels + baguette from Downie Street Bakery. Everything from bread over is 🇨🇦. Details: alt.text

It’s #NPPW2026! Learn how to give, take and store medications safely: parachute.ca/poisonpreven... #RethinkPoisons

Great article on the baffling lack of support for road safety - American based, but applies here in Canada as well. #ParachuteVZ #TurnSafetyOn www.fastcompany.com/91505393/tra...

We now just have to find more #Stratford #Ontario people here in Bluesky land.

I live in the same city as @brittlestar.com Here's today's "Special weather statement" from Environment Canada: "Patchy freezing rain and ice pellets possible this morning. Travel may be difficult. High winds may toss loose objects or cause tree branches to break. Local utility outages possible."

Busy weekends recently, so didn't post my #BuyCanadian #ElbowsUp finds. This weekend's haul: From the meat, left, is 🇨🇦. For people in #Stratford, heads-up that Giant Tiger has Birch Bark Coffee, a First-Nations roastery near Ottawa, on sale for $12.97 for a 340 gram bag. Details of shop in alt.text.

Another "Stratford Like a Local" post from #TeahenTales: From Pounders to pints. #Stratford #Brewery #Beer

Raising public awareness about poisoning as an injury issue helps reduce harm, prevent avoidable injuries and deaths and ensure people know how to respond quickly and safely. Register for this free webinar today to learn how: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #NPPW2026 #RethinkPoisons

The stats in this piece. Especially this one. "A one- to three-hour daily commute amounts to approximately 250 to 750 hours per year, equivalent to six to 18 additional full-time work weeks spent in transit rather than on productive work or personal activity." 1/3

Hills, water, tight historic areas … can’t think of a more complicated place to try this than Bilbao and yet they did it. A great city even if you never go to the Guggenheim (the subway goes to the beach!). Our only barriers here in Toronto are political.

Instalment No. 5 in the Teahen Tales blog series, Stratford like a local: You don't really live in #Stratford until you start loathing like a local, too.

Yoiks. A #Stratford Ontario home for sale: Nearly 5,800 square feet over three levels, property edges the river, $4.2 million pricetag. Apparently black is the new beige. At least there's an apartment on the lower level to help with the financing. 🙄 #realestate www.realtor.ca/real-estate/...

No matter how often I see a video of a giraffe birth, it stuns me just how fully formed these not-so-wee babies are in their first minutes and hours. Welcome baby giraffe! 🦒@thetorontozoo.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKKT...

Feb. 21 #ElbowsUp #BuyCanadian. Noteworthy 🇨🇦: Donair-flavoured chips (!); Carna4 dog food & liver treats from #Stratford The Barkery; bulk split peas & ham hock for soup; greenhouse greens, bean sprouts and tomatoes. Non-🇨🇦: 🇲🇽 & 🇳🇱 veg; bulk arborio & brown basmati rice. Needed lemons but all 🇺🇲 ☹️

Feb. 22, 2026 marks the one-year anniversary of Adoption Day for Ruby, our Bichon bundle of joy.

Still buying Canadian? This #Ontario hockey dad is on Day 135 of making sure you don't forget #BuyCanadian #ViveLeCanada #Canada 🍁 Chris Agro says his made-in-Canada project has given him a deeper pride and love for Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Valentine’s Day in #Stratford. Post-matinee drink at Relic Lobby Bar, then a home dinner. The cozy mood deeply saddened tonight by news of a friend’s cancer-caused death. So there are tears, and hugs, and love, and tears again.

#ElbowsUp #BuyCanadian, #Valentine version. Pic right: all 🇨🇦 from #Stratford Farmers' Market, Gentle Rain & LCBO. (Need maple syrup for Shrove Tuesday!) Larger pic: 💞 dinner will be steak, twice-baked potatoes, greens, all 🇨🇦; appetizer coconut 🍤 from 🇮🇩. Items from beans left are 🍁. Details: alt.txt.

Today's 💞 adventure: an afternoon in the theatre with two icons, Rod Beattie and Diana Leblanc. Weirdly, despite I go to much more theatre than most people, this is the first time I'll be hearing/seeing a reading of Love Letters by A.R. Gurney.

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees. This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

No. 4 in my Stratford Like a Local series - how kids in Stratford find a way to toboggan in a hometown without real hills.

New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

I've met Lara St. John a few times. She's from @londonontario.bsky.social : I remember her & her brother Scott St. John as whiz-kid violinists. Since 2018, she's been public about sexual abuse she experienced at 14 at the Curtis Institute. This is her documentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wUK...

Travelling on Saturday, so did weekly #ElbowsUp #BuyCanadian shop on Sunday. Farmers' market, specialty shops closed in #Stratford: grocery stores only. Everything left of the celery and Peruvian alstroemeria is 🇨🇦. 🇲🇽 broccoli, pepper & raspberries, 🇬🇧 tonic water, 🇬🇷 olive oil. Details in alt.text.

Temps did a big drop (again) in my part of Ontario. I've always had cold feet in winter. No boot worked. Not until a salesclerk at Werthers in #Stratford ON convinced me to buy Bogs neoprene boots. Lightweight. Easy to slip on. Totally toasty toes even in "feels like minus 30 C" weather. #winter

Signed.

What do Paris, Montreal, Barcelona and Brussels have in common? “If you look at the cities doing the most to reclaim public streets from the automobile and give it to people, they often have one thing in common, and that's strong female leadership.” @thewaroncars.bsky.social LISTEN: bit.ly/3MdP82L

Very proud of this work from @parachute.ca - practical tools and a structured, comprehensive approach for those who provide care to an older adult to prevent falls and have those sometimes difficult conversations. #FallPreventionCanada #TurnSafetyOn

More than 1,000 truckloads of snow hauled to Stratford snow dump

01-31-26 #BuyCanadan #ElbowsUp grocery shop: From the baguette (#Stratford Downie Street Bakehouse) left are 🇨🇦 including meats and cheeses from Wild Hog, mussels, soups, sweet potato, onions, greens, dairy, oat milk, frozen raspberries, chips+ popcorn. From non-U.S.: full description in alt.text

When I buy anything from the grocery store, I look for Product of Canada, this means it is entirely, or almost entirely, Canadian content (98% or more). I also buy locally made products, products from the UK, Australia, Scotland etc. #Canada Read the labels carefully. www.cbc.ca/news/marketp...

An ordinary garden-shed door, made extraordinary by the adorable #bichon. #AdoorableThursday #DogsOfBlueSky #DogSky #RubyTheBichon #Stratford

No. 3 in my Teahen Tales blog series, #Stratford Like a Local: Entering the Inner Chamber. A look at the quirky and long-running chamber music series founded by Stratford local, Andrew Chung.

From #Stratford artist Carlie Pearce.

#Stratford area alert: We are subscribers to the Inner Chamber concert series; for this one, my husband, Chris Moorehead, is narrator. The theme is Typeface: relationship between music & type design over the centuries. Sun. Feb. 1, 5:30 dinner, 7 p.m. concert. www.granthaven.com/post/innerch...

Jan. 24 #ElbowsUp #BuyCanadian shop with a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Robbie Burns add-on (Haggis, kale; tatties & neeps already in stock). 🇨🇦 dairy, salmon, tofu, cheese, some greenhouse veg, eggs, snack bits, toothpaste (Green Beaver), soap. Non-🇨🇦 (& Non U.S.) to the right of the fava beans & chickpeas. Details in alt.txt.

Observe the winter fence phenomenon known as squirrel-run scallops. ❄️ 🐿️

My morning view. #Bichon #DogsOf#Bluesky #Dogsky

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

We were there last weekend to see the Spinal Tap sequel. It's a great addition to Stratford, Ontario's downtown.