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pano perfect
Describe the best picture you took in 2025. I’ve been trying to take the elusively perfect panorama picture since about a week after I got my first digital camera. My success has varied. A few years ago the iPhone added the method that I use to this day, which if you’re sitting there reading this
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uncooked
What is your best winter treat recipe this year? I have been somewhat remiss in my kitchen efforts this whole year, falling back on a routine of regular home cooked meals, sure, but flopping spectacularly when it comes to anything more adventurous or creative. In fact, the Kid has almost entirely taken over on the
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hiragana three
What was the best anything that you read in 2025? Japanese signage. I’ve never been a great student of language. In grade school, having started elementary in a town that was apparently not following the provincial French language requirements for the curriculum, we moved and my new school dropped me into learning our second national
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campfire foul
What’s something you should have cooked in 2025 but didn’t? It’s fifteen degrees below zero and snowing heavily as I write this so it seems pretty unlikely that in the remaining fourteen days of this year I’ll convince myself to clear a path to my outdoor fire pit and settle in for a campfire cookout
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poetic war
Describe your 2025 in politics, culture, and the universe? No. Ugh. Ok. I’ll bite …a little bit, for the blog. I was doing a little experiment the other week. I had a perfectly good reason to post a pointless video clip on social media the other day, but I didn’t want to use my main