1 day ago · Five years ago January I spent every day for two weeks at Catherine’s side in the Provincial Palliative Care Centre.My time there, though filled with anxiety and anguish, also feels like a magical bubble of wrap-around support after a six years of caregiving, and I hold a soft spot in my heart for the centre and its staff and volunteers.

11 hours ago · Remember that cold I alluded to back in early January, the one I claimed had “broken”? Well, 24 days later, illness holds onto me with its steely claws. Sore throat. Cough. Congestion. An evolving variant of what hit me earlier. The earliest I could get an appointment with the nurse practitioner ...

Jan 30, 2025 · Here’s the Apple Maps view of the corner of Kent and Great George from the summertime: And here’s a photo that Lisa took while walking by the same corner earlier this week: It’s a remarkable change to the neighbourhood, and one that seemingly happened in the blink of an eye: one day the ...

1 day ago · In his post Fix Three Broken Things, David Cane writes about the “psychic injury” of having broken things in your life:. All broken things, no matter how easily they’re fixed, levy ongoing costs to well-being. They cause psychic injury every time you see or interact with them.

Oct 14, 2024 · One of the casualties of Hurricane Fiona, in 2022, was a plum tree that Catherine and her father planted many years ago.The tree had been a prolific producer of plums for years—I made a tasty apple-plum sauce from its fruit and that of its neighbouring apples back in 2020—but Fiona threw it to the ground. As the tree wasn’t snapped, we sought guidance as to possibly saving it, and a ...

Jan 20, 2025 · While not explicitly written in reaction to recent revelations about writer Neil Gaiman, Annie Mueller’s When you love something made by a terrible person is a useful guide to processing the idea of beloved culture created by terrible people.. Mueller’s conclusion: I believe people can change. Most people don’t change, though, after a …

Jan 11, 2025 · Receiver Coffee opened a new treehouse location, a labyrinth of levels set into the branches of a banyan forest located, oddly, in central Charlottetown.. One afternoon, Tim Chaisson and I were sharing a coffee at the highest level of the forest-café when we both leaned back over the railing too far and fell over the edge. “Grab the vines, Tim, GRAB THE VINES!”, I …

Jan 20, 2025 · Empty the automatic coffee maker, and set it up for the morning to brew coffee at 6:30 a.m., Empty the dishwasher. Clean off the countertops. I do not bat 1000 on this effort, but when I do it, it’s very satisfying, both in the doing (ending …

About a year ago, when Amazon unleashed the ability for third-party developers to create skills for its Echo speaker devices, the first one I created was a skill that allowed you to ask questions about Prince Edward Island’s electricity load and generation.. But I never took the skill to certification (the review process by which Amazon certifies a …

This is a journal, updated frequently since 1999, published by me, Peter Rukavina. I write here about topics including technology, design, printing, travel and Prince Edward Island. You can read these posts in a variety of ways: All told, there are more …