Saturday suspense! Tried making a double batch of GF baguettes. Pretty sure I accidentally doubled something, so I added a double batch of everything else to match ...

More things unpacked from school backpack: dremel, another length of pipe, $4.35 in coins, kleenex, hair elastics, soldering paste, coil of wire, some whittled wood, Magic the Gathering deck, drill bits, base of a clock, cute political buttons.

Youngest kid has gone to school extra days this week. More days in total his week than he attended in all of Grade 9. If you are in despair as a parent this time of year, please know it CAN get better. Schools CAN do better, and kids can, too

Unlikely items removed from teen's school backpack: can of corn won at poker, length of pipe, disassembled clock parts, half a fork, single polished stone, crumpled covid masks, pair of pliers, paintbrush withbunknown toxic substances, and enough candy wrappers to stop a bullet.

🌺🔍 Take a look at the latest from our #Maud150: Back-to-the-Future collection, an invitation to reconsider L.M. Montgomery’s legacy through fresh perspectives! 📲 journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/Maud-150/Led...

Voted in advance polls, filed my taxes with the joyful spirit of a democratic socialist. Big Citizen Energy today.

Happy International Women's Day to all. Build some solidarity in our movement today. Celebrate our togetherness across differences is radical in these times. peistatusofwomen.ca/2025/02/13/i...

Really excited to be part of this event! Yesterday, CUPE National closed our Building Strong Locals conference with a beautiful International Women’s Day breakfast where we sang Bread and Roses. I’m honored to now lead the singing of that song to close the IWD event hosted in Charlottetown 🍞🌹

This news conference on basic income guarnatee ended at exactly 3:15 Thursday when the Premier resigned, so it may have escaped your notice ...

Charlottetown living wage: $23.30. Summerside: $22.20

Reading a mystery for pleasure but have found some major editing errors and now as an editor am in a state of anxiety at everything I have ever missed in a manuscript ...

So grateful for anything that blooms in February

I want to post. I want to connect. But I can't bear the thought of adding to the noise.

On New Year's Day 2021, I began a daily yoga practice and have not missed a single day since. Here is to year four.

Parenting advice for when your kid is baking a gluten-free Swiss roll in a toque while whistling "Fly Me to the Moon"?

Feeling grateful for a wool-lined raincoat and waterproof shoes. Desperately in need of a glimpse of the sun.

My littlest baby is now fifteen.

It has come to my attention that we have too many cats. (Four.) The dog has brought this to my attention.

Waking up early on a weekend is delicious. Hmm. I might be a morning person.

I haven't been on here, but I am thinking a few more people I like might migrate from the other place in the coming days. Keeping an eye out for familiar names and faces.

We just watched the classic 1985 NFB animated short "The Big Snit" with a teen who is now ... very confused. www.nfb.ca/film/big_snit/

Is there a scientific reason that I fall asleep during so many American radio shows and podcasts, even if they are interesting?

Showing teen how to fold laundry better. "It's okay, Mom. I know how to fold this shirt. This is just how I do it." *rolling it into a ball*

One thing I wasn't expecting as a parent since the beginning of the pandemic was how much extra work it would require to re connect young people to the world and to community. They need adults to connect them. Vitally important work, but hard. Time-consuming. Worth it.

The Charlottetown Montreal Massacre Memorial Service and candle-lighting for victims of gender-based violence will take place Wednesday, December 6, at noon at the Confederation Centre of the Arts.

Dec 6 is Canada's National Day of Action & Remembrance on Violence against Women. It marks the anniversary of the '89 Montreal Massacre where a misogynist separated the men from the women & killed 14 women. Please attend your local vigil. We must never forget what happened.

I have a special talent for identifying low-priority tasks and committing to them wholeheartedly in the face of a crushing pile of high-priority tasks. Putting the "pro" in "procrastination" since the 70s.

My BFF got a new iPhone for the first time in many years and is making every photo into a sticker. Should I send help?

Brian Eno believes that basic income symbolizes a belief in the inherent creativity of all individuals. By ensuring UBI, society can empower everyone to explore and express their creative potential. By acknowledging everyone's potential, UBI can be a tool for inclusive progress.

Out! Late! On a school night! For my sister-in-law's fabulous show. Go tomorrow if you are in Fredericton, Saturday if you are in Halifax. #jenngrantmusic

Today is National Child Day! Here is a reminder from a violence prevention educator : Comprehensive sex ed is the best tool we have to keep kids safe from sexual abuse. When they know the names for their body parts & that coercion is not consent, they are safer from harm. All kids deserve safety.

What is counting as a date today is going in the same car to two different errands but meeting up after to drive home.

I love it and hate it that my kids need little help on their Halloween costumes these days. Just glad the 17-year-old still dresses up.

One of my kids was just talking about the myth of Sisyphus and concluded, "Sometimes, you gotta just let the rock get its own way," in case you were wondering about where existentialism sits among the youth.

BETTER TRANSIT NOW! is inviting regular transit users to participate in its first survey on transit use and services in the Greater Charlottetown Area. #pei There are 2 separate surveys (one for occasional or non-users and one for regular users): newcharlottetownproject.ca/better-trans...

Friday! I treated myself to a fancy ne reed for my clarinet. Living large.

Who locally is a confident wikipedia editor who would be able to provide a ten-minute intro/encouragement to participants in a workshop? Theme of making visible folk who have been systemically invisibilized in historical narratives.

One of the best things my sister does is bring a big box of reusable school lunch containers to a family meal so everyone can pack up leftovers in nice serving sizes to take home or put in Mom's freezer.

I have injured my shoulder doing crochet, and I feel very, very old.

I just walked home from a meeting carrying this beautiful, enormous onion, in case you want to know how to get attention on the sidewalk.

Band geek, reader of the whole library, bad dresser. Hobby basement silk-screenist.

Oldest kid has a birthday today and texted me to say she is now as many years old as I was hours in active labor (before having an emergency section).

If I have counted correctly, today is the 1,000th continuous day I practised yoga since restarting a daily at-home practice. I think my practice is the only reason I have gotten through the last few years. It is essential to my mental health.

Yesterday, when I towel-dried my hair and looked in the steamed-up mirror, for a moment, my hair looked like a hot celebrity from the late 1970s. Parker Stevenson, not Cheryl Tiegs. But still.

To whatever critter is munching on zucchini in our garden, I would like to say good job and thanks for the help.

After 17 yrs walking St Peter's Road most days, it remains a mystery why the city won't paint lines where there are implied sidewalks across vast swaths of parking lots fronting streets.

No better way to test out how links work on here than with a new video by my sister-in-law Jenn Grant, with her friend Aquakultre

A work commitment prevented me from being at the counter-protest of the anti-trans nonsense. I am happy our organization was well represented there on the side of LOVE and children's rights. ❤️

Home from a very special 20th anniversary celebration for the PEI Working Group for a Livable Income, who work for basic income guarantee for PEI and all of Canada. Many past and current working group members. Tears and laughter, and good politics.

Not doing a lot of just-in-case before the post-tropical-storm weekend, not even pre-panicking, but we did take down the tent gazebo. We will miss it, even though we didn't spend enough time in it this year.