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Hit and Miss #210: Little reading

September 12, 2021

Hello! It’s been a quiet vacation week for me. It included a visit with a friend to Laurel Creek Conservation Area (a history of which I wrote up a few years...

Hit and Miss #209: September, it’s finally here

September 5, 2021

Though it’s been a while since I traded the arbitrary requirements of professors for the arbitrary requirements of checks notes bureaucracy, part of me still...

Hit and Miss #208: Reading and movies

August 29, 2021

Hello! It’s slaloming between drizzle and downpour here. I spent the morning catching up on Star Trek: Lower Decks. Nothing quite like cozying up with...

Hit and Miss #207: August free fall

August 22, 2021

It’s the part of the season when I start liking summer. (Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi”, on not knowing what you’ve got ’til it’s gone, comes to mind.)...

Hit and Miss #206: Democratic event(s)

August 15, 2021

Hello! I’m writing you from my kitchen, where I’m nursing a temperamental batch of stock. (Only one boil over, we’re in good shape.) This morning, the Prime...

Hit and Miss #205: Let’s get nerdy

Good afternoon! How are you? I hope this finds you as well as can be. Links for you this week: I’m still scratching my head over this bizarre story. Men in...

Hit and Miss #204: Cool sunsets

August!! Welcome to the summer-y month where we start to get a hint of that most wonderful of seasons, fall. There’s heat yet to come, but the last few days...

Hit and Miss #203: Parables

Hello! I spent most of the weekend reading Parable of the Talents, by Octavia Butler, for a book club early this afternoon. It’s so good—better even than the...

Hit and Miss #202: Boredom, boiling frogs, and miscellany

Boredom. A mind searching for things to think about, for things to do. Webster’s 1913 edition characterizes it as weariness “by tedious iteration or by...

Hit and Miss #201: Summer dreaming

Hello, and a happy Sunday to you! My week was filled with family time, which has been wonderful. Such time reminded me of the quiet reassurance that comes...

Hit and Miss #200: “You give me life”

Good evening! Somehow, I’ve been writing this newsletter for 200 weeks in a row. Half the archive ago, I wrote about my principles for living. Happily, they...

Hit and Miss #199: Loading

Hi friends! It’s been a busy weekend for me—packing things up, cleaning, and more of the above. I’ve accumulated a fair number of links to share, but they’ll...

Hit and Miss #198: Cooking, staying hungry

Hello! I’m writing this from the kitchen, a comfortable, cheery spot. I’ve just finished reading Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner. If you’re not...

Hit and Miss #197: Responding to violence

Hello! I hope this finds you well. It’s warm in Ottawa, but compared to the heat we had earlier this week, it’s rather nice. It’s sometimes difficult to know...

Hit and Miss #196: Doors Open (online)

Hi there! This weekend is normally one of my favourites in Ottawa: Doors Open, when numerous interesting organizations, big and small, open their doors to...

Hit and Miss #195: 215 children

This week, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir shared the heavy announcement that the bodies of 215 children were found on the former...

Hit and Miss #194: What’s on the mind

Hello there! The weather here in Ottawa is all over the place. Scorching yesterday during the day, a hot breeze in the evening, then we barely touched 20...

Hit and Miss #193: Lilacs

Hello! We’re solidly into spring, now—it certainly feels so outside. The days heat up, though they’re not too muggy yet—here’s hoping for a gradual...

Hit and Miss #192: The world is cool

Hello! Just a few links for you today. I spent much of the weekend reading, finishing Dune for a book club this afternoon. I realized that most of the books...

Hit and Miss #191: Anniversaries

Hello! I hope you’ve enjoyed a proper weekend. It’s a week of anniversaries for me. May marks the anniversary of my joining the Canadian Digital Service...

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