Letter Writing Again
I am writing letters these days, after an unintentional on-and-off hiatus last year.
While in Taiwan this past summer, all of a sudden I was sending mail again! We had collected some addresses for the ...
Leather Notebook Covers from The Superior Labor
We recently got a restock of these leather notebook covers from The Superior Labor, as always in limited quantities, based on TSL’s production capacity. They are one of my favourite items by them. I fe...
Wonder Pens Unite
A thousand years ago (I don’t want to talk about it) Caleb wrote out “Wonder Pens Unite” and it was so cute we turned it into a button. It’s been resurrected as a sticker.
His handwriting has progresse...
Toronto Libraries
We’ve returned to Canada and returned to our favourite adventures, which have the pretty incredible bonus of being free: visiting various libraries. In many places around the world, libraries are sanc...
TheCoffeeMonsterzCo Workshops
I wanted to share some more photos from last weekend’s TheCoffeeMonsterszCo workshops and pop-up. Some of these are from Sean (thank you!) who was there for some of the workshops I missed.
This past wh...
Life These Days: The End of 2024 is Near
2025 is barrelling towards me! I’m paralyzed by fear and indecision, in the face of imminent crushing! How will I survive??
I may not. Or I may! Who knows! Changes are happening rapidly in life, as alw...
Getting Ready for TheCoffeeMonsterzCo
TheCoffeeMonsterzCo is coming to town! Actually, Helen has already arrived, and we have been futzing about and setting up shelves and price tagging things and eating ramen and printing worksheets and ...
Reading Books By the Sea
I’ve come home from Taipei, and headed straight back into the library.
By total happenstance, I picked up two books by two of my favourite authors that are so completely different and yet entwined toge...
Mid-Autumn Festival
It was the Mid-Autumn Festival! Which I think is one of my favourite of the Chinese holidays, because it centers mainly around eating mooncake. There might be a few other things involved. There is pos...
Chicken’s Corner: Cat Desk
The cats are alive and well—or, at least, mostly well. Chicken continues to feast on his expensive veterinary diet of which Tuna has an occasional crumb, and the vet has confirmed they seem to both be...