Make a commitment to dedicate a certain amount of time or a certain number of repetitions towards a project you care about. Similar to a compass, a pact encourages you to show up and surf the chaos, ...

Some helpful advice from the postmistress at the Charlottetown Post Office this morning. If you have standard stamps, which right now are $1.44 singly or $1.24 in books, these can be used like this: ...

And, while we were on an art-roll, Lisa suggested we retrieve a large painting from storage and use it to fill up a large ...

To learn more about me, read my /now , look at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, read presentations and speeches I’ve ...

About This Blog 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, ...

There’s a feeling I get at the drug store blood pressure machine, the feeling that comes from wanting to win at blood pressure. I find myself breathing deeply, trying to will my blood to stop having ...

About This Blog 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, ...

I was writing to my Dutch friend Frank this morning about his post Renewal. Reflecting on my own move away from paid work 18 months ago, I realized that work, for decades, had been my all-powerful ...

IKEA offers a service whereby you can have online order shipped to a central warehouse on PEI, the advantage being that it’s cheaper than having things shipped directly to your door. We were in ...

The problem now is that the semester draws to a close next week, and neither lunch nor market returns until October. To deal with this, I’m going to put a reminder in my calendar for October, with ...

In the mid-1950s, in a student residence at Cambridge University in England, the Oxford and Cambridge Far East Expedition was born: It began, like almost everything else at Cambridge, late at night ...

Here’s the Apple Maps view of the corner of Kent and Great George from the summertime: And here’s a photo that Lisa took while walking by the same corner earlier this week: It’s a remarkable change to ...