Hit and Miss

Hit and Miss #390: Try carpolling

February 23, 2025

Picture this: GTA, 2025. You’re driving down the 401, pondering whether Alto will ever be real enough to make you reconsider driving from Ottawa,1 when,...

Hit and Miss #389: Shovelling the snowbanks

February 16, 2025

Whew! This morning, I pre-shovelled the driveway as the storm started to intensify, listening to Robin Wall Kimmerer in conversation with Krista Tippett—I...

Hit and Miss #388: Hair of the dog

February 9, 2025

Friends, I did it! After many years of missing out on Canal ice skating fun (some climate induced, others self-inflicted), I skated the full length...

Hit and Miss #387: “Brace for impact”

February 2, 2025

Where was Begu now? … It was a worry already worn smooth from use and there was nothing she could do. She set it aside to watch Oswine’s entrance. Nicola...

Hit and Miss #386: Paying attention

January 26, 2025

What a week. I’ve been sick for much of the week (physically so, some sort of respiratory fun, though, with waves hands at the news, feeling sick in various...

Hit and Miss #385: Government innovation with TREES

January 19, 2025

Hello! It has been a few weeks of writing at work, so I’m a bit word-ed out. I’m also happily tired after a pretty full weekend, so will just move ahead to...

Hit and Miss #384: Mercurial January

January 12, 2025

Hello! In what seems to be a trend, my mood this weekend has been mercurial. Partly, I think a stressful upcoming month at work, but also, as my therapist...

Hit and Miss #383: “Finish”

January 5, 2025

Hello!! Yesterday was pretty so-so—irritable all day, like I’d just started it with the wrong mindset (though T’s suggestion of a midday walk did help). Then...

Hit and Miss #382: Some books from 2024

December 29, 2024

Hello! Back in Ottawa, cozily ensconced in freezing fog and other “how’d they come up with this” weather phenomena. I woke at 4 this morning and couldn’t...

Hit and Miss #381: No tinsel for you!

December 22, 2024

Hello! Today was a driving day, so I’m pretty zonked. It’ll be a bit of a weird Christmas, but looking forward to some lower-key weeks nonetheless. If you’re...

Hit and Miss #380: “Song for a Winter's Night”

December 15, 2024

Hi there. Weird times. Just a week or so from holidays, and it’s decidedly Christmas-y out, but I haven’t felt hugely in the spirit. T and I were discussing...

Hit and Miss #379: Doing hard things, together

December 8, 2024

It’s been a full day, a full weekend, a mostly full week, and I’m doing alright. Tired, but in a satisfied way. Shovelling ourselves out from the snow...

Hit and Miss #378: Deferred maintenance

December 1, 2024

Whew! My brain and body are tired. The kind of tiredness that’s a sign of both a good weekend, and a hopefully excellent night’s sleep to come. That to say,...

Hit and Miss #377: Hard week, good weekend—snow’s coming

November 24, 2024

Whew, hi! After a very busy week with some serious ups and downs, it’s been a good weekend, including: Woke up early (naturally!) and spent a few hours...

Hit and Miss #376: November media diet

November 17, 2024

Good morning! I’m more than halfway through the book for this afternoon’s book club. Most likely I won’t finish, but that’s what long ago reading Pierre...

Hit and Miss #375: Disappointed, but not surprised

November 10, 2024

Monday through Wednesday I spent a few days this week back in familiar territory, attending FWD50 (I assume that page’s copy will eventually be about 2024,...

Hit and Miss #374: Highs bring lows (but more highs incoming!)

November 3, 2024

…morning? afternoon? evening? The sun is shortly setting!? Post-time-change confusion coupled with post-COVID-booster blehness has made for a drained, tired...

Hit and Miss #373: Friendship’s sunshine

October 27, 2024

Why hello there! Can you believe, we’re nearly done October? When I write you next, it’ll be November, notoriously the hardest month. Last night, T and I...

Hit and Miss #372: Categorized (try) todo lists

October 20, 2024

Good morning! My rebooted attempt at time tracking fizzled out. I wasn't able to get back into the habit of recording the hours, which made for incomplete...

Hit and Miss #371: Humanity and turkey

October 13, 2024

Hello! Down visiting family for a few days, always interesting to be back in KW to see what’s changed and what’s charmingly still the same. And, of course,...