Blueberry Muffins and Civil Disobedience
I don’t recall if I’ve written about this before, but one of my earliest coherent memories is one of civil disobedience. My sister Joanne and I are riding in the […]
I don’t recall if I’ve written about this before, but one of my earliest coherent memories is one of civil disobedience. My sister Joanne and I are riding in the […]
I’d already finished my shower and gotten dressed by the time my alarm went off at 5:30. Truth is, I’d been awake for a while, nursing that lump of dread […]
And now, as Monty Python was fond of saying, for something completely different. Most of my “Roadtrip” posts of late have either been farm-related or announcements of yet another short […]
Just a quick heads up for those of you who haven’t already gotten the news via Devon’s FB feed: as of this morning we are both theoretically and practically empty-nesters. […]
The law is a bit imprecise on these things, but by my reckoning, at the moment the clock struck midnight and rolled into this new morning, Devon and I (both […]
The house is full of teenagers again this weekend. M is back for the Thanksgiving weekend, and in her wake, the usual crowd of LARP teenagers have tumbled into each […]
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 2 I lost another friend this week. Yesterday I got to […]
One of the heuristics I’ve developed in my time on earth is to always be wary of things that try to define themselves in terms of what they are not. […]
Ah, Earth Day. What better to do than rise before dawn and stroll through the countryside with a friend, marvelling at the wonders of nature and admiring the beauty of […]
The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing. — Archilochus, 700 BCE. Most days, I feel a bit insecure about being a dilettante. I mean – […]