Category: Life

I’m writing the first draft of my latest attempt at a novel on a typewriter.

I’m not alone in adopting old tech; as a millennial I watched the popularization of vinyl records and mechanical watches. Whether for nostalgia or as statement pieces, there’s always been people interested in the obsolete.

But I’ve also noticed an increasingly pertinent reason for resurging interest in these long-departed technologies and that’s to do with the declining value proposition of their later successors relative to their immediate replacements.

The last few weeks have been a tour of some of the gems Ottawa has to offer, and it makes me excited for the summer to come.

I hit up the chocolate factory in Almonte, checked out the flea market at Lansdowne before then attending a Pride-themed PWHL game, went to a sugar shack, and saw the Breakfast Club at the Bytowne. All were teeming with life.

Last month, I released Océanne and Tristan Cross the Atlantic. The culmination of eighteen months worth of work, it was an hour-long satirical radio play about two French-Canadian trans people becoming the center of a new moral panic.