Life Lessons
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Why I Hated the Cottage as a Teenager
I remember the exact moment when I decided that I would never go back to my family’s cottage ever, ever again. It was August 2000. I was 16 and sick of visiting the dusty, drafty old place in Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains. Its incessant mothball smell was getting to me, especially because it never seemed to…
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Why Fighting Over Furniture Can Be a Good Thing
Four years ago, when my partner and I bought our first condo, we decided not to spoil our new space with the old, worn-out Ikea futon we had in our rental apartment. We were both happy to leave the couch on the curbside when we moved, but it was a full four years before we…
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I Made Something: Memento Box
Slow is not my normal speed. So, when I signed up for a two-day woodworking class to learn how to make a memento box, naturally I showed up late, running in with my headphones blaring a podcast, one hand holding a spilling coffee cup, the other hand checking my e-mail. When I had signed up for…
Matthew Hague 