A funny thing for you to come here for me to send you away again, but some tome ago blogger stopped working for me so I migrated those sites to my own dang server. And my old cat blog got deleted by WordPress as dormant on their server. I got the files restored.

The only files you control can’t be hosted by someone you can’t control. See Meta(stasize) empire of Instagram, Facebook. The twitter, the blue sky, the what have you.

Long story not too short, Looking on the Bri Side , Pearl Essence and Catnips & Catnaps are now housed here. The dog he just scatters though all my social media. Should I build him a blog retroactively? He’s pretty old. He might live a year or six…

And a reminder to those reading in close to real time, there’s that event at 1 Canal St. Ottawa of the Refused.

For haikuists who are not a member of of Haiku Canada for whatever reason, we still may review you collection at our blogazine: Shohyōran

Got unpublished English haiku? The Haiku Canada competition is opening Dec 15 and running until the end of February. It may get a 2 week extension…

Details on the Betty Drevniok Award.

The annual regatta reading is coming Dec 27th, an office party for Ottawa poets.

A new venue, a coffee shop/art gallery showroom in the midst of residential neighbourhood.

As usual lovingly hosted by our own rob mclennan,
This time The Peter F. Yacht Club annual regatta/christmas party/reading will be at Anina’s Café, 280 Joffre-Bélanger Way, Ottawa
Saturday, December 27, 2025, doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm

Readings from yacht club regulars and irregulars alike, including: Jennifer Baker, Frances Boyle, Conyer Clayton, David Currie, Michelle Desbarats, AJ Dolman, Amanda Earl, Claire Farley, Cara Goodwin, Chris Johnson, Margo LaPierre, rob mclennan, Christine McNair, James Moran, Lee Parpart, Colin Quin, Mahaila Smith, Grant Wilkins and Chuqiao Yang (and possibly others, like Pearl Pirie)

See rob’s report on the event two years ago here

Salon of the Refused: Ottawa

When: Monday, December 15, 2025 – 7 PM to 9 PM

Where: Bytown Museum 1 Canal Lane, Ottawa

REFUSÉS

Salon of the Refused

Jeremiah Bartram

Frances Boyle

Ann Cavlovic

Gillie Griftin

Doua Hreiche

Jen Jakob

Margo Lapierre

Debra Martens

Pearl Pirie

Lauren Radey

David Stymeist

Amy Tector