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Hit and Miss #140: In memoriam

May 10, 2020

Hello, A heads-up before we start. Today’s letter will be a little more personal—and longer—than usual. It’s about death and grief during these different,...

Hit and Miss #139: Beautiful words

May 3, 2020

We could all use more beauty in our lives. Beautiful words can carry important reminders or profound thoughts, they can inspire us to reflection or to...

Hit and Miss #138: Wordy cookbooks

April 26, 2020

Good day to you! It’s cloudy here, but that’s not getting to me too much—things feel decidedly alright. Mine wasn’t the best of weeks. There was nothing...

Hit and Miss #137: Day off reading

April 19, 2020

Good morning to you! Today’s going to be a day off for me (though not an off day). Here are cool things I encountered this week (thanks to friends who shared...

Hit and Miss #136: Parliament carries on

April 12, 2020

A fine morning to you! I started my day thinking I’d avoid computers entirely. Then I remembered realized that today’s Sunday (extra long weekends, oops). So...

Hit and Miss #135: Personal websites

April 5, 2020

Good morning folks! It’s a drizzly Sunday morning—I’m soaking up the quiet and watching Urbanized. Last week, Ethan Marcotte wrote about redesigning his...

Hit and Miss #134: Do nothing struggles

March 29, 2020

The collected answers to last week’s question (What comforts you?) are at the end of the email. There’s a new question this week! Hello there! A friend...

Hit and Miss #133: Sims

March 22, 2020

I’m trying something out, a little more interactive, with this newsletter. Consider sticking around until the end, or skipping ahead, to participate. I’m...

Hit and Miss #132: Now so fast, history so slow

March 15, 2020

Six weeks ago was the end of January. My head thinks February just started. I have to remind myself that I was home for a whole week, for my birthday, in the...

Hit and Miss #131: Finding focus

March 8, 2020

Good morning, folks! Actually, as I write this, it’s no longer morning—but it’s sunny outside my window, and the clocks just changed, so everything feels...

Hit and Miss #130: 2x3 links (misc, archives) and a phrase

March 1, 2020

Hello there! A bright Sunday morning to you. Despite being buried in schoolwork the past week, I’ve somehow managed to accumulate a fair number of...

Hit and Miss #129: Spring, feelings, readings

February 23, 2020

Maybe the groundhog was right—spring feels on its way. We’ve a run of above-zero days, the Canal has closed “until further notice”, and the air is gradually...

Hit and Miss #128: Family time

February 16, 2020

Two things happen when I return home to Waterloo: I track my time much less rigorously. Of the time I do track, much of it is filled by long stretches with...

Hit and Miss #127: Collected links

February 9, 2020

Hello there! I’ve had a bit of an off week, thanks to some health troubles. No alarm bells going off today, but heading in for more checkups tomorrow. Fret...

Hit and Miss #126: Mining my messages

February 2, 2020

Somehow it’s February already?? This morning, a friend and I did a site visit for a course on Indigenous histories and public discourse in Ottawa. (We went...

Hit and Miss #125: Facilitating access

January 26, 2020

I’m writing to you from one of my favourite spots, a library. Libraries are institutional versions of the role I’d like to play in life, that of a trusted...

Hit and Miss #124: Snow slow

January 19, 2020

Snow has been the story the past few days, here in Ottawa and elsewhere in Canada—particularly in Newfoundland. There have been some entertaining stories...

Hit and Miss #123: Retreat to the wholesome

January 12, 2020

Well, it’s been quite the start to the year, hasn’t it? It’s been a hard week in Ottawa, in Canada, and beyond. And this morning Ontario Twitter came...

Hit and Miss #122: Archives and walking and links

January 5, 2020

Hello! Here’s to you, here’s to 2020—let’s take this one with gusto, shall we? (Or, y’know, with whatever we can muster. I’m here with and for you...

Hit and Miss #121: Engage!

December 29, 2019

Hello! Apologies if you only got last week’s issue yesterday. My newsletter provider had a bit of a hiccup, but it’s been sorted. I’ve been home sick since...