works of wanderlust

Month: November 2021

  • (Un)inflatable Winter

    At the risk of writing a (slightly) political article alluding to some opinions about supply chains and the state of the modern world, I wanted to share what (finally) arrived on my doorstep yesterday. A box. In fact, it was a large box, and a box I’d ordered … in June. In June, we were

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  • daylight

    Dawn hides itself deeper in the morning,As night’s darkness waxes upon winterYear after year, as predictable as Lunar orbits bring the tides andIce drawn heaps of crystalline snow Greet shortened hours of sunlightHonouring plotted courses through space andTime and seasons passing now and ever. – bardo I have reserved some space on this blog each

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  • Travel: Disney in the Time of COVID

    My wife has been waking up at three thirty in the morning lately. Deliberately. Her alarm goes off, she activates her phone, logs into the Disneyworld website, and queues up her virtual reservation system trying to get us a dinner seating at a reasonable time and place … for some time next year. I’m not

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  • Creative Outlets

    It’s November. Every November for the last couple years I’ve hunkered down in front of my computer keyboard and started writing … occasionally finished writing … a novel. There is an online writing event called NaNoWriMo wherein those so inclined to put pen to paper (or more likely, fingers to keyboard) can launch through a

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