works of wanderlust

Month: September 2021

  • Last Day of Summer

    And just like that the leaves turned yellow, the air felt crisper, and another summer drifted into memory. In three short months we managed to squeeze in quite a lot of action, particularlly considering that the world was still fairly locked down with this pandemic. We visited the mountains for two weeks across two separate

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  • Unpoliticalish

    It’s not that I’m not a political guy. In fact, usually kinda the opposite. But I’ve made a very deliberate decision to keep this space fairly free of politics and opinion that links (directly) back to those topics. That said, it’s election day in Canada and today the nation was off to the polls to

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  • Terry Fox-ish

    Every year on this weekend for a generation Canadians go for a run. Forty years ago a young man named Terry Fox, long since deservedly held up as a national hero, attempted to run east to west across the country. He was in remission from cancer, and had lost a leg to it, but set

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  • Strip This Pan, Part Two

    I know that with a name like “the cast iron guy” you might expect that I’m some kind of guru in cast iron when in reality it as much about a philosophy of life that is expressed in the form and function of cast iron as much as a so-called cast iron expertise. I write

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  • Short: Friday Fires

    Long work days, short cool evenings. I had my phone in one hand and an axe in the other (metaphorically speaking, of course) as Friday’s quitting time slipped into view. The benefit of (still) working from home is that I can check the laptop for rogue, last-minute emails even while I heat up the backyard

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