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Wanderings – Analysis paralysis and good enough

September 15, 2021 Phillip Blancher

My bottomless list of household and hobby projects is often sidelined by an ailment, one that I have suffered from for a long time – analysis paralysis. This ailment, also known as AP, is not […]

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Wanderings – Soccer can solve most issues

September 8, 2021 Phillip Blancher

This summer has been almost normal for one part of my life, the soccer season. Up Saturday mornings, setting up, coaching, and sometimes resolving issues that should be left on the soccer pitch. It was […]

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Wanderings – Labels, Tiny Desks, and John Prine

September 1, 2021 Phillip Blancher

I don’t prescribe to the notion of labelling anything. This does not mean that around my house boxes are not organized or anything. Societal labels, genres, or preconceptions are what I mean. This especially applies […]

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Wanderings – Reassuring shop talk

August 25, 2021 Phillip Blancher

Last week I had the opportunity to talk to a colleague from Western Canada about photojournalism, journalism, and the media industry as a whole. Throughout the hour-long conversation, we discussed many of the larger issues […]

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Wanderings – Where are the candidates?

August 17, 2021 Phillip Blancher

Canadians will go to the polls on September 20, but you would not know it by the election preparedness of political parties in some ridings. Take this riding – Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry – for example, where […]

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Wanderings – Four is not better than one

August 11, 2021 Phillip Blancher

I was sorting some things in the basement the other day and I had an epiphany so to speak – why do I need so many of the same things? Let me explain. One of […]

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Wanderings – Things I do not miss

July 28, 2021 Phillip Blancher

A year and a half of a pandemic changed a lot of the customs and practices that were part of everyday life. All those changes were due to the need to physically-distance from each other. […]

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Wanderings – Water, water, almost everywhere

July 14, 2021 Phillip Blancher

Like many people who live in a community which has municipal water and sewer services, I cringe when I see the bill. When I read in the paper that the price for water and sewer […]

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Wanderings – Election this fall? No thank you

June 30, 2021 Phillip Blancher

If you believe the pundit-class in media, Canadians will be going to the polls sometime before the end of the year in a federal election. That is the cure for what ails the country after […]

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Wanderings – Some things are best left alone

June 16, 2021 Phillip Blancher

I am not a cheap person. That is to say I am not someone who chooses price over quality. When I shop for products or services, I try to support local as much as possible. […]

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