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February 1, 2023

January Reads.

This year reading has come easy, after letting go of reading challenges last year, and just letting myself go with the flow, and with my whims, I didn’t reach the end of the year racing to meet some arbitrary goal, and I feel better for it. I started the year...

November 18, 2022

Burger Time: Toronto – Soy Boys

I’ve been sampling a variety of vegan burgers the past little while, and most of them have been pretty decent. They’re often met with ambivalence (from me and others) after decades of lack lustre veggie burgers or non-vegan places phoning it in with a wilted mushroom cap or something. But...

September 6, 2022

The Hugo Awards – 2022

This was my first time attending Chicon, and the Hugo Awards, virtually of course, but what a treat it was. I’ve read so many of the nominees this year, perhaps next year I will vote, but voting seems impossible since I love so many of the books – in my...

August 29, 2022

Real Sugar is Hard to Find by Sim Kern

I read Sim Kern’s Real Sugar is Hard To Find a few weeks ago, and it has stuck with me. The short story collection grapples with some heavy topics – climate change, reproductive freedom and reproductive justice (both to have, and to have not), what we owe one another, parenthood,...

August 12, 2022

Big Mountain Foods – Soyfree Tofu

I’m always excited to see more plant based protein options – especially for folks allergies – so when I had the opportunity to try Big Mountain Foods soy-free tofu recently, I was very excited. Their tofu is made from Canadian fava beans, and has a really efficient amount of protein...

August 11, 2022

Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell

I read Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell in a hammock under the canopy of old cedar and pine trees – it felt like the perfect place to be. In the trees, relating to trees. The authour describes herself as someone who “writes weird fiction” and that was a major selling point...

April 10, 2022

Weekend Maple Tree Visit at Purple Woods

Our small human recently celebrated a birthday and we booked a cottage near Presquille Provincial Park, and had a lovely little time. While we were in the area, we also took the opportunity to check out the Purple Woods Maple Festival. We heard about it while taking part in an...

March 30, 2022

Bloomer’s Copycat Cobb Salad

I don’t know about you, but in 2014-2015 I basically lived at bloomers every Tuesday morning. I’d make sure to buy coffee and food on the regular, but I would park myself in a booth, and sit there with my laptop for several hours. It was not usually super busy...

March 27, 2022

Coburg, Ontario – The Market and Smør

We’ve been spending more time in Northumberland County lately, in preparation for moving to the woods (to some degree or another) and one of our visits included a stop into a very lovely independent grocery store. I will come back to take more pictures when it’s a little less busy,...

March 6, 2022

Peterborough, Ontario – Nateure’s Plate

The past few months we’ve been spending a lot of time looking around rural Ontario – and luckily, some of those trips have taken us through Peterborough. In doing so, got us to Nateure’s Plate for the first time. Nateure’s Plate has been open since 2018, but somehow it took...