works of wanderlust

Month: September 2021

  • Back in the Blogging Habit

    Nearly a week into September, and coming off a summer blogging break, I’ve had to get myself back in the mindset of writing daily again. Producing a personal blog with daily content is a lot of work after all. Not that I’m alone in this kind of effort. A summer break, as much as it

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  • Runner en Route

    Sunday Runday, and the day slipped away from me. I plodded out a ten kilometer loop in the wee hours of the morning, running with the same trusty group of friends who have kept me company through a summer of adventure running and virtual race training. Yet over the summer something silly and spontaneous happened

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  • The Artful Joy of Splitting Sourdough

    A friend of mine killed her starter. Dead. I didn’t ask how. Vacations. Life. A summer heat wave. It happens. So a few days later I just split mine and delivered one half it to her in a plastic pouch. Problem solved, and she could go back to baking loaves. This marks the third time

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  • (Sub)urban Sketching

    It will come as no surprise to readers of this blog that I take a lot of photos while travelling. Often with multiple cameras in hand or slung over a shoulder or stuffed in a pocket, it has become a slight obsession to try for an amazing photo while out and about on a the

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  • The Hot Pan of Endless Convenience

    This is not the first time I’ve brought up my mushroom grilling wonder pan on this blog, and it is unlikely to be the last. A summer of backyard grilling and open-flame cooking has done nothing short of cementing my resolve celebrate a years-long (if accidental) effort to season a chunk of generic cast iron

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