Make a commitment to dedicate a certain amount of time or a certain number of repetitions towards a project you care about. Similar to a compass, a pact encourages you to show up and surf the chaos, ...

Ten years ago I installed an Ikea Digniet wire in our dining room to provide a place to “hang my collection of ephemera.” ...

Some helpful advice from the postmistress at the Charlottetown Post Office this morning. If you have standard stamps, which right now are $1.44 singly or $1.24 in books, these can be used like this: ...

There’s a slight smell of sulphur ever-present here in Serrazzano, and I used this as inspiration for my first printing experiment last week. By chance, there was a very sulphuric yellow at the ready ...

For Oliver the coming of the mist was transformative; flu vaccine time was still an anxious time of the year, mostly because being in a hall filled with other people about to get a needle is like ...

Every time I visit Province House I find something new. This time it was the skylights, which I’d never noticed before. They run all the way from the second floor up to the third floor and the roof: ...

Subsequent to my email from David Carey, Publisher of The New Yorker I received the following email from Jim Mate, VP - Retail Marketing, Conde Nast Publications: We apologize for the difficulty that ...

To learn more about me, read my /now , look at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, read presentations and speeches I’ve ...

My guess is it’s PR. Surgical patients expect to receive care until they’re well enough to go home at the hospital at which they were operated on. Well now before that happens you may be told that ...

I was writing to my Dutch friend Frank this morning about his post Renewal. Reflecting on my own move away from paid work 18 months ago, I realized that work, for decades, had been my all-powerful ...

Because I was raised in an era when we were willing to conceive of mobile devices as servers as much as clients, it’s always bothered me that the ability to mount an Android phone’s storage on a ...

About This Blog I am Peter Rukavina and this is my blog. I am a writer, letterpress printer, and a curious person. To learn more about me, read my /now, look at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, ...