Chop, Fry, Watch, Learn
I may yet go back and give Chop, Fry, Wath, Learn a 5/5. The writing lacked a certain sparkle, but this book by Michelle T. King otherwise incorporates much of…
Ottawa bike locker review
The City of Ottawa has launched a new bike locker with three locations across the downtown. I do worry about my bike/scooter when I'm in the Market for a while,…
Mid-September ride roundup
I've had some broken-up weeks with lots of working from home and at locations around my neighbourhood, and it's ben busy enough that much of the footage for those rides…
Code Girls / May Our Joy Endure
Liza Mundy's Code Girls was a rollick through the WWII-era American military industrial complex's recruitment of predominantly young educated women from women's colleges to work on code-breaking. Following one cohort…
Days 6, 7, 8, and 9 of a perfect string of cycle commute weather
Last week I posted a wrap post of my rides in asserting that that was probably the nicest week of the year we'd have to commute by bike. Actually. the…
360 no one asked for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqyUyXooR40 September always feels like the real start of the new year - do we ever lose that back-to-school feeling? I had some distance to cover on Sunday with an…
A Way to be Happy
Caroline Adderson's A Way to be Happy was a bit of a dreamy read. The characters were a motley crew of men and women on the margins struggling with loss and…
Rebel Girl
Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life As a Feminist Punk could have been a crushing work of trauma porn but her humour and intelligence - with a smattering of "hey, I…
This will probably be the nicest week of weather we’ve had all year for commuting
This week turned out to be four perfect days in a row for my cycling commute. Work has gone from zero to 60 as everyone gets back to their desks,…
Yours For the Taking
Books about billionaires feathering their climate change nests are a thing: this is the third or fourth I've read in the last year exploring the trope. Gabrielle Korn's Yours For…
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