Back in April, which seems like a hundred years ago, I set up a challenge…
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Microadventure #12: Green Day at the Ottawa Bluesfest
Last summer, we were planning our first trip to New York City when I noticed…
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Microadventure #11: A (Lake) Superior adventure
This will be by far the most extravagant (I think!) of the microadventures in my…
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Microadventure # 10 – Briston Maroney in Toronto
My middle kid Simon introduced me to Briston Maroney in 2022, and he quickly became…
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Microadventure # 9: Kayaking through the Rideau Canal locks
For my latest summer 2025 microadventure (number 9, if you’re keeping track,) I had a…
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Microadventure # 8: Manotick’s Dickinson Days
Last year, my friend Debra and I shared a booth at Manotick’s annual summer festival,…
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Microadventure #6: Experimenting with cyanotype
Cyanotype is a printing process. You coat paper (or fabric, wood or other substrate) with…
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Summer 2025 microadventure #4: collecting rocks at the beryl pit mine
If you have even the most casual passing interest in collecting rocks in eastern Ontario,…
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Summer 2025 Microadventure #1: Searching for the flooded Highway 2 and the Lost Villages
Today I kicked off my #Summer2025microadventures challenge and had an unexpected pre-microadventure embedded in my…