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September is a month of fullness in the garden and the pantry with the crops at their peak and all … Harvest time Read More »

There is an opportunity within the chaos created when work from home and hybrid work hollowed out the Central Business District (CBD) of places like San Antonio and Portland. In San Antonio I saw a …

Yesterday (June 2nd 2024) we lost one of our great sporting heroes. Of course I’m talking about Rob Burrow CBE who played scrum-half for Leeds Rhinos. He was the tender age of 41. He lost …

Notes on The Pole: A Novel by J.M. Coetzee (Liveright, 2023)1. "The decision to invite the Pole ... is arrived at only after some soul-searching." The Pole then is the soul being searched for. And …

2025 has begun, and we are starting the year in Japan. This is the first book by Maki Kashimada to appear in English translation, and it collects together two novellas. I would say the main …

A polacca through it's first stages before basing, priming, and painting.A little houy.I finished assembling and rigging a few more ships including a little houy, a whaling brig, a polacca, as well as a a …

DDoS Update The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is ongoing. Even after I moved our load balancer to new hardware and a new IP address. This means that the attackers are not just targeting …

On January 2020 I wrote an article entitled "Eleven wretched women, or how fake news almost killed women athletics". It's one of the best articles I have written in this blog. Unfortunately it has gone …

This is the full text of a letter written on behalf of one of the defendants charged with narcotics violations in conjunction with the death of my friend and collaborator Michael K. Williams. It was …

Hope you had a blessed Feast of the Epiphany Time for another Catholic Meme Monday. Highway to the Manger Zone Too punny! My kind of STEM classes. “Be not afraid.” Amen! Also #introvertproblems Spoiler alert …

Goodbye, 2024 – but first, a quickie look back at the forces that were allied against Free-Ranging last year. And then? A hairpin turn to hope! Worst first! Child Reported Walking: As, ahem, I was …

The first of many oddities in these pictures – granted, it is hard to choose – is arguably the tone. Why are these photos, with imagery that looks contemporary or certainly no more than 50 …

Recently I realized I was yet to see the sunrise in Taiwan.In my first year, summer temperatures pushed my daily walks further into the night. Then, by the time winter returned, my late starts had …

Jim Goldberg’s new book, Coming and Going, is a mess. It’s a mess of photographs, a mess of handwritten text, of notes, letters, a mess of collages of photographs often hundreds of images to a …

Here it is: our deep winter. In January, we might see frost on our lettuce, and we can enjoy a fire in the fireplace. Appreciate it before it’s warm again for the rest of the …