
Change. Loss. Grief. These are some of the blanks we face in life. And somehow, we find ways to fill them in.
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I can’t see the birds in this photo, but I can hear them: throats open, trilling and singing their songs. March 3, 2026
Today I am going to keep my focus very small: the birds are singing.
It is still very, very cold and snowy and, truthf...
I feel like January started yesterday, but the calendar says otherwise. World chaos does that to how the mind tracks time, I suppose. We strain to understand and put ourselves to bed and do it all again the next day, slightly number for the...
Trying to understand one’s own mind is like trying to see the whole entire horizon from the beach. Broad Cove Beach, Cape Breton Highlands, July 2025.
I wrote an observation a few months ago about the nature of memory, and how, as I age an...
I’m letting go of seeing life as a road with a “behind me” and an “ahead of me.”
I’m a pretty adventurous cook. I get an idea in my head and decide to pursue it, because “Gee, I wonder how that works” will never not be a pathway I follow....
I have hundreds of photos of drinks I’ve drunk through the years... they just meant that much to me.
I stopped drinking 100 days ago, after about, oh, 20 years of reading other people's "100 Days" posts and knowing I had to quit.
But I d...
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Unafraid of grief and loss. Still not sure how I feel about the inexorable flow of change.
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