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We’re running another Letter Writing Club: Wednesday, October 29th at 6:30 pm.  

Canada Post went on strike and they’ve come back in rotating strikes. A delight! This is a delight, but also I am hoping f...

The fall is here and with it some autumn inks in my pens. This is sort of my year round colour scheme but even a broken clock is right twice a day, and your favourite pen clerk once a year. 

We’ve come back into our routines, hurrying and waiting and hustling and eating car snacks and reuniting with old friends and teachers. Familiar and new all at once. 

Every year, every September, I spir...

We went camping together with some of the staff! So many of my favourite things joined together. 

We went for a few days to the Pinery, which is a tried and true campsite for us. We went to the beach, r...

Something new, something old. Returning to our shop: Foglietto cards. We have been waiting for these for a long time!

These are packs of vertical index cards, in A6 or A7, with different rulings includ...

Back to school!

I have a thousand things to do and none of them are getting done, but at least the kids have gone back to school. What a ride. They prepared their own pencil cases this year, and I love...

One of the best souvenirs of any trip or travelling or adventure or season is a journal with your memories and thoughts and ephemera. It’s both extremely low cost (the cost of a notebook and a pen) an...

It’s nearly the end of the summer, and here we are! The above photo of baby Junia is a representation of how I’ve been doing on this blog: nonsense on the white page, eyes closed to reality, hoping fo...

And the final part of our adventures in Okayama: we visited Kurashiki to see their shop. The last time we came, TSL had not yet opened their shop, but had secured the location and were undergoing reno...

A random night out here in Taipei. We are living the high life! Without Jon, so it mostly consists of cut fruit in flimsy clamshells, noodles out of plastic bags, and this most recent late night out a...