This sent me back to all my favorite cakewrecks.com pics:

Great episode! Listened while biking here, near the site of the Yankee Gale disaster off Prince Edward Island, appropriately. (I wonder if there’s an episode in that.)

Loved the Pryce: that ending! I’ll add Merchant 1936 to the mix. It got mixed reviews, but I loved the female Shylock and the background of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street.

And The PEI spud museum

Adding Oxford, NS

Yes there are threats and frustrations and heartaches in higher ed teaching: but then there is a perfect convocation day and parents and smiles and really good colleagues who always show up for their students.

Bookmark is ours in Charlottetown PEI. I went this morning to enjoy the crowds of book browsers and to pick up Zadie Smith’s “On Beauty.”
Also got more beautiful ink that I don’t really need… they stock great pens, journals, and inks and even run a pen club!

For a really good brief explainer of the mess we Canadians find ourselves in — and the fake numbers that are getting thrown at us — check out the More or Less podcast with @timharford.ft.com

I’m going into my second-last class on Milton’s Paradise Lost, ridiculously pleased with my redesigned certificates of achievement, suitable for framing, because seriously, it is a massive poem and attn. must be paid. (The header honours my own teacher, Jim Forrest, who always said that about PL.)

My latest purchase in my “reading to
keep me sane but still engaged”
list. Loved his “Humankind: A Hopeful History,” and before that, Jamil Zaki’s “Hope for Cynics” and Rebecca Solnit’s “A Paradise Built in Hell.” Yes, folks, we are worth saving.

To mark Freedom to Read Week’s Digital Day of Action, why not share one of your favorite banned or challenged books? #FreedomToRead. Here’s mine:

That is such a hopeful thing to do. Yes to seeds and dirt. In the still frozen north, we are weeks away from anything but dreaming of planting — but a little indoor herb garden to run my hands through helps.

By coincidence, I was just reading about her this morning in Rutger Bregman’ s very hopeful Humankind: a Hopeful History.

My aspirational book pile for our annual escape to the woods in PEI with no wifi. (Can she go three days without checking news and Bluesky?)

Canadian here. This is what we see:

Just some blue sky to say thanks to Bluesky today. It’s good to be here.

This is one I teach in a capstone class: love it, though it might be too specific to the liberal arts for your purposes: Martha Nussbaum’s Not For Profit.

This is the one recommended to me as neither all for or all against, but I haven’t read it yet.