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I recently started a new journal, which is one of my favourite things to do. 

For one thing, it’s very satisfying to finish up, to fill up, an entire notebook. I’ll have been carrying it around for days...

We were in London for an event for Caleb, and I was totally unprepared for how excellent a visit it would be. London is a fairly long drive from Toronto (2.5 hrs) and I had anticipated it to be mostly...

In case you needed some reading inspiration, here I am with some books on the go, from the team. (Admittedly perhaps no longer on the go, given how long it’s taken me to collect and collate all these ...

Some time ago I utilized every brain cell I had available to rationalize to Jon that we needed to buy these special and possibly overpriced Tupperwares with two compartments, and that our overflowing ...

I often putter around the Land of Existential Crisis, wallowing in the stagnation of inefficacy, Naomi throwing up in the night and then Tuna throwing up in the morning, me feeling generally repelled ...

We had a Letter Writing Club at the shop this past week. What fun! It has been a long time since we did one of these. There’s not much to it, just coming and hanging out and writing a few letters. We ...

The first rule of the Tsundoku Book Club is to not talk about the Tsundoku Book Club.

The other day, I was minding my own business, doing my menial life tasks in the pleasant and solitary fashion of so...

I’ve made it through February, and I feel like I require several days of spiritual rest to carry on through March, my life force having drained out of me. 

Balancing life with dubious parenting decision...

We got a new line of notebooks in: Nakabayashi, a company from Japan which has been operating for over 100 years, creating office supplies and stationery.

The Yu-sari line of notebooksis the highlight, ...

There was a snow storm here in Toronto. The roads were perilous on the way home from Chinese class, which I feel earns me some sort of medal as a tiger mom that is usually trailing off at the back of ...