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Artist in Residence (but just at my own house)
I have mentioned it a few times over the last year of posts, and I have even posted a few modest samples, but I have a slow burning fascination with sketching that has kindled into something more since I’ve been spending so much time at home longing to travel. In particular #urbansketching has wrapped a
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We Interrupt this Training Plan for …
Sunday Runday, and I woke up to a skiff of fresh overnight snow and a minus twenty world out my front door. Yeah, you read that right: -20C. (Not even mentioning the “feels like” -33C wind chill estimate that accompanied the forecast on my weather app.) As I was eating my breakfast, one of my
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How to be a Photographer.
Three dSLRs Four GoPro action cams. Two tripods. One flash. Nine lenses. A fistful of memory cards. Drawers packed with gadgets, clips, hooks, meters, caps, filters, batteries, microfibre cloths, and a random assortment of other camera accessories. And in 2021 I took a lot of photos like this… on my iPhone. What do you wish
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Not Created Equal
Not all websites are created equally. Take this site. As a real estate analogy, this is a cabin in the woods. This blog is the digital version of a weekend getaway, stuffed with comforts and curiosities, eclectic bits of cookware, and eccentric tchotchkes piled onto the shelves to add an atmosphere of warmth while still
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Another Life Reset
Nearly every day for the last year this blog has given me space to think about and write about living a more simple, purposeful life. Better food. Longer walks. Moments of captured creativity. But so what’s my point? Who or what are you leaving behind in 2021? I guess getting to the end of a