Month: April 2026

  • weekender, eight

    weekender, eight

    Spring actually seems to have arrived this past weekend. I’m going to regret writing that in a week when we get another late-season blizzard that clogs up traffic for a couple days, but between going for a walk in a t-shirt and running in shorts and considering moving the tomato plants outside for a few…

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  • synthnaholic

    synthnaholic

    I have been playing so much music lately.  It was almost two weeks ago when my new MIDI-controller arrived. I had ordered it over the long weekend and thinking it would be shipped later that week, trekked across country on a slow freight truck, sorted and maybe delivered within two weeks—well, I lowered my expectations. …

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  • weekender, seven

    weekender, seven

    I think spring might actually be here. I was pretty tired Friday evening because I had gone on my long adventure walk that morning (and into the afternoon) and was feeling the weight of it in my legs for most of the rest of the day.  We celebrated the Kid’s first paycheque at her new…

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  • fifty walks, walk two

    fifty walks, walk two

    Winter returned temporarily, and not that it should have stopped me from going out for a long stroll, but I’ll honest: I imagined this thing, at least the first few iterations, as some kind of romantic spring stroll as I shred the bonds of winter and embraced the last summer of my forties.  Then it…

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  • fifty walks, walk one

    fifty walks, walk one

    I’m no April fool, but spring has been playing tricks on all of us this year. It seems to tease a warm up but then chill out the next day and offer up a little bit more snow. Case in point. Yesterday I did my first of the fifty walks series, and I didn’t even…

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