If you’re a blogger, you already know that sometimes it’s hard to think of anything to blog about, while at other times you have a surplus of blogging ideas. Right now I’m in overflow mode, which is a good place to be. I’m not finished blogging about poverty, and I also want to blog about […]

I dragged my bike out of the basement and put some air in the tires and pronounced it ready for summer!

Today I took it to work for the very first time ever. I drove through the Experimental Farm, then along the bike path that runs beside the Rideau Canal from Dow’s Lake to downtown. Then […]

The bad news is that the Swap Box on Primrose was stolen and the one at Percy and Gladstone was vandalized. If that weren’t bad enough, the Plexiglass Flower Box at Percy and Gladstone was gone when I passed by there at 6:30 yesterday morning.

But don’t despair! There’s good news too:

Andrea from the Fishbowl […]

I ran into John at Mexi’s the other evening while waiting for my Dad and Merle, and John plied me with tequila and said his favourite blog posts were the ones about the Swap Boxes. And, he pointed out, there hadn’t been a Swap Box post for quite some time.

His timing was perfect because […]

I pass the Mayor Larry Swap Box on Lisgar Street on my way to and from work, and sometimes at lunchtime too, so I have an ongoing relationship with it. Sometimes I make a swap, other times I just leave something or take something. Sometimes all I do is peek inside.

For about a […]

I think it’s really funny that someone left some graffiti in the Swap Box. I wonder what they took in exchange?

I’ve recently started leaving my Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) in the Mayor Larry Swap Box on Lisgar Street outside The Invisible Theatre.

Yesterday morning the Swap Box was empty so I left an […]