Category: cast iron guy

  • Travel: New York in November

    Travel: New York in November

    It’s been nearly a year since we left the country last, but after six months of plotting and planning our long awaited return to Manhattan finally rolled into view on the calendar. Whatever else, it might give me some things to write about here over the coming week or two as I settle back into

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  • Local Flours Sours: GroundUp Coffee Flour

    Local Flours Sours: GroundUp Coffee Flour

    I was feeling adventurous when I bought a wee bag of local-ish upcycled coffee flour from a local food market. For what it purported to be, coffee flour turned out to be little more than milled used coffee grounds, cleaned, dried and packaged as a gluten-free additive for bread or other baking needs. When I

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  • Un-Wounding

    I hate blog posts that are just excuses for not writing. That said, I have been quiet for quite a while. That deserves at least a little excuse for not writing. The summer was a bust. Back in July when I wrote about my knee I was still moderately hopeful that whatever my self-diagnosed ailment

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  • Knee-hab

    Ten days ago I was climbing up a mountain trail near the Crowsnest Pass, a low peak along the continental divide on a sunny Sunday afternoon, looking at views like this: I could feel the start of some bit of twinging in my right knee, but like anything else for a guy in his mid-40s,

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  • Snakes, Ditches, Mud, and Ticks

    Each summer for the last few I’ve hosted a small adventure club for a group of my running friends. We call them Adventure Runs, though running occasionally turns out to be only a minor component of the adventure. So…. once again it is summer, and once again yesterday morning I posted our secret meetup location

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