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A new project

It’s been pretty quiet around here lately, hasn’t it? I’ve been spending all my free time on a new project involving… stationery! I’m making pocket accordion note cards, like a pocket notebook but for more temporary use and without the…

Crush is out today

My daughter released an EP today titled Crush. It’s available on all major streaming platforms and it’s pretty great. Check it out! Spotify YouTube Amazon Apple Music

I feel it in my fingers…

Our washing machine is broken and waiting on parts for a repair, so I found myself in a laundromat today for the first time in 20 years. For some reason, this laundromat chose to play — quite loudly — a…

Random Web Surfing

url.town is an indie web home grown URL directory of fun, interesting or useful websites. Spamming the random link link is a wonderful way to wile away a few hours and learn something along the way. I also enjoy Wikipedia’s…

Yard Stick

We used this yard stick (actually it’s 2 yards) to measure my daughter’s height from 1 week to 18 years old. I like to photograph important objects in case they are lost. This was a bit of a challenge, given…

Stoicism and the Art of Happiness

I recently finished Stoicism and the Art of Happiness by Donald Robertson, a Scottish-born CBT practitioner and student of both Stoicism and Buddhism. I came to this book having read enough about CBT to be familiar with its main concepts,…

Music Finds, November 2025

Here is my belated list of music finds from last month, November 2025. So much good stuff, coming in at a whopping 19 tracks. This is a playlist I can just listen to on repeat lately. If you want to…

A Leaf from the Tree of Songs

“A Leaf from the Tree of Songs” is a poem by Adam Christianson. I put the words to song years ago but never recorded more than a rough demo of it. The melody always stuck with me, so I finally…

Before That

This is my entry for November’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by Alex Siraç on the topic of cycles and fluctuations. It’s also my second attempt at flash fiction, coming in at 819 words.