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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

We ...

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!

We have broken out our seyes ruled notebooks and sharpened our pencils a...

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...

I continue to enjoy my days at the library, crying the occasional tear while wondering how Junia is doing.

The library system is heaving itself back to life, I hear, and me and Caleb have been giving e...