Kathleen Edwards recorded a cover of the song for her new album Covers that’s rather compelling. (Another worthwhile track from the Edwards’ new album is her cover of Paul Westerberg’s Only Lie Worth ...

Harry Holman posted A Whale of a Tale, an account of the 1857 discovery of a whale carcass in Tracadie Harbour, first published in The Islander: At the present time a novel spectacle, an enormous ...

H.B. MacLean, signatory of MacQuarrie’s certificate, and the MacLean of The MacLean Method of Handwriting, taught at the ...

Here’s what Carl Dair wrote about weight contrast in A Typographic Quest 5: Contrast (emphasis mine): ...

See also The Subversive Love Songs of Lucy Dacus, a New Yorker profile by Amanda Petrusich. See also Love, Loss and Parenting, an interview with Petrusich on Anderson Cooper’s All There Is podcast.

The “furiously” and the “curious” are set in a wooden typeface that I purchased from Letterpress Things in 2022; it has its own jaunty quirkiness, and I think the two typefaces are a good match.

The first crocuses of the year appeared in the front garden at 100 Prince Street on Friday, March 14. See also 2020 (March 24), 2021 (March 12), 2022 (March 18), 2023 (March 20) and 2024 (March 14). I ...

The Moon was almost full tonight—97%—and the sky was crystal clear, so we went on an evening photo walk, looking for views of St. Dunstan’s Basilica to feed Lisa’s series of relief prints from ...

When the best song in the world has already been written, why do I write? Well, it gives me some freedom, doesn’t it, to just be in my little place, and write basically the same song over and over, ...

When you live on an island, sometimes, in the dead of winter, you need to GET OFF THE ISLAND. It doesn’t really matter where. Just OFF. So today, with a rare day free from other commitments, Lisa and ...

I am Peter Rukavina and this is my blog. I am a writer, letterpress printer, and a curious person. To learn more about me, read my /now, look at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, read presentations ...