After taking some time to think about it, my answer was “the power to not care what other people think.” “I can give you that power right now,” he replied. And so now I have it. Lines and paragraphs ...

Almost everyone, at some point in their life, washes the dishes. Not many will do it well and even fewer will look forward to ...

We’re in a six week cycle of strength conditioning at Kinetic, and today’s workout was a build to a single “ RPE 10” dead lift (“lift as much as you can while maintaining technique”). I lifted 245 ...

From this point Olivia is now free of the yoke of needing to officially go by one name, and otherwise by her chosen name: she ...

The upside was that my phone has now started to respond to “Hey Siri” again. I can again easily add items to the household ...

Manuel Moreale writes about his frustrations with using Ko-Fi as a "micropayments" system to support his work: ...

Peggy is a painter—she painted portraits of most of the Cudmore children and grandchildren, she told me—and, at 90, paints ...

Years ago, when I was equipping my first print shop, Alan Preston, then personable owner of Hearts & Flowers, gifted me a used paper cutter, of the type you might remember from public school. I’ve ...

Twelve years ago in this space I wrote about Vance Bridges, in a post about being a member of the Central Farmer's Co-op: I had an up and down relationship with the coop after that: I went to every ...