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Solar Eclipse
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There was some once-in-a-lifetime intragalactic phenomenon and here in Toronto it was too cloudy to see it. It looked possibly optimistic before the actual eclipse, the clouds clearing out of the way ...
A Flock of Chicken Stamps
What has my life come to? What am I doing with myself? The days and weeks and months and years are sliding through my fingers like water. Six years ago I acquired a cat because we lived in a factory w...
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Tuna’s Corner: Tuna and Junia
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Junia is in preschool and adjusting well. Or, who knows! Junia starts crying and running for me every time I come to pick her up, like she’s being released from the gulag, but the reports from the sch...
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Stamp Caravan Returns: April 19-28
The Traveler’s Notebook Stamp Caravan is coming to town, and we are so thrilled to be hosting them again. Traveler’s Company has a set of stamps with different designs and themes, and they send them a...
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Currently Inked March 2024
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Another set of currently inked pens, with five new inks, also available in the shop as a set of samples, for a limited time (i.e. until they run out). I am hoping to do these sample sets more regularly...
Cursive Writing Night
This past week we had a Cursive Writing Evening at the shop. How fun! We had a little package for each participant with two styles of cursive writing, along with samples for them to pick from to write...
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Lynda Barry
After many years, we have finally addressed a deficiency in our book selection. It is one of many, of course, but this one seems especially egregious because Lynda Barry is a creative hero of mine.
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Seyes Ruled Paper for Cursive Writing
These days, Naomi, our intrepid 6-year-old middle child, is learning cursive writing, and so I’m back into it as well. What fun!
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We have broken out our seyes ruled notebooks and sharpened our pencils a...
Chicken’s Corner: Home from the Vet
Chicken made it out of the emergency vet, thank goodness, and several thousands of dollars and several small vials of Jon’s tears later. I have visions of Jon harvesting his tears and applying them on...
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I Continue Life At The Library
I continue to enjoy my days at the library, crying the occasional tear while wondering how Junia is doing.
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The library system is heaving itself back to life, I hear, and me and Caleb have been giving e...