Fall colours!
I'm having some issues with connectivity at work and the job's been very busy past few weeks, so I haven't kept up on posting. The change in colours this week…
Great scooter season is coming to an end, I think
I've probably only got a couple of weeks left of scooting this year. I will miss it. My Synergy has performed flawlessly this summer after a couple of seasons with…
Rat City and real ones
Like everything I've read and loved by Katherena Vermette, real ones is a rewarding story that delves into the lives of Métis women and their complicated relationships with each other, with…
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…