december status board
currently planning: what to do with ten days without work and how to be mostly offline/AFK obsessed with: people who see flags in their dreams and share them...
revisiting old loves: words
i've been reading and writing
november status board
“Joy is such a startling word. I guess I've been aiming low, hoping for moments of occasional relief. I feel like I am, like we all are, being strong-armed...
october status board
day 221
september status board
day 198
smoked out snapshot
day 189
august status board
quarantine day no. 161
july status board
quarantine day no. 139
may status board
currently planning: working up to a half-century ride on our stationary bikeobsessed with: the notion that smaller animals tend to perceive time as if it’s...
two things getting me through
one, we adopted one of our foster dogs, a senior papillon. the breed is described as “a small, friendly, elegant toy dog of fine-boned structure, light,...
april status board
currently planning: book stuff, garden stuff obsessed with: alex schaefer’s paintings of banks on firetinkering with: miniature VHS tapeslearning: i’m...
march status board
I can’t believe it’s only been one month since my last status board went out. currently planning: turning my backyard into an outdoor roller rink and...
the art of structured time
Something I’ve been thinking about a lot is time.We know that we have been given the gift of time. It comes with strings attached: social distancing,...
kicking off quarantine movie club
hi friends. i’m starting up a weekly virtual quarantine movie club, beginning next week. if you’re interested in participating, reply to this message and...
getting through winter
i didn't always understand that thing about the sun—that i, you know, needed it. even by the mid-2000s i sill didn’t have experience with seasons. i mean...
hello, world, again
cajun sparkle 2.0
what if hemingway was the original florida man?
hi from key west. i've spent a couple days taking care of my brain in two major ways: first, listening its lizard parts that cry out for sunshine, and...
2019 in review
hello. i hope this new year, decade, and YOU will forgive me: i've only just gotten around to making black-eyed peas and collards, so i'm taking things a...
how is everything?
the other night at a teppanyaki joint in kyoto, an older japanese gentleman (a Regular, and fellow egg lover) handed me a pushpin. he gestured for me to...
foster dogs of 2019
this year we've been the on-and-off again foster home for various dogs from the pixie project. our last foster dog, jimmy, was picked up before halloween,...