Familiar Voice
Running today for the first time today since early January, I heard a familiar
voice in my ears. It’s my running app reporting my stats to me every five
minutes. It’s
Observations
This is a collection of things that I see in front of and behind my eyes. These posts have been published near daily since October 2016.
Nomadland
It may seem obvious that the key metaphor of this movie is that life is journey,
but the theme of it is that you just keep going. It may not wind up where
Surfin and Turfin
The combination of lobster tail and steak—a surf and turf platter—has always
seemed like an over-ambitious and ostentatious dinner, but when it is cuted-up
as surfin and turfin and applied to
Sign of Craftsmanship
The carpenter working some outdoor trim repairs on my house took home some
damaged wood to make replacement pieces that would be exact matches. Trim
profiles change and on a 20-year old house
Convention Buffet
I’ve never seen turkey vultures in the woods behind my house. I saw one on the
ground and I could not see what caught its interest. When I went to inspect
things