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It’s All About the Trail Shoes
Sunday Runday and with less than two weeks until my first in-person race in over a year and a half I found myself facing a morning run dilemma. New shoes. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining about new shoes. Quite the opposite. While on vacation in the mountains a few weeks ago I finally
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Potluck Impossible
As the sun sets this evening I’ll be partaking in a strange and magical event that has become rare elusive these past eighteen months: a small housewarming party. A dozen or so (fully vaccinated) friends and I are converging on the newest abode of one of them to sit and chat and eat and chat
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Friday Finds: Pressed Flowers
Fatherhood is funny. Finding honest and interesting things to do with a young child can lead one down all sorts of previously unfollowed paths of creative exploration and into all kinds of time-filling follies. For (nearly) fourteen years I’ve been nudging my daughter to try new things, to explore her creative self, and find fanciful
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Book: Handbook of the Canadian Rockies
I don’t buy many paper books these days, so I caught even myself off guard when I dropped fifty bucks on this doorstop-grade loaf while on vacation over the summer, and in a souvenir store no less. We had spent the day in the wilderness and flipping through the pages it caught the dangling threads
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Hymenoptera
I sometimes tell people that while in university I unofficially minored in bugs. As a biology student I had many options for my options, but my interest veered sidelong into a course of courses in the entomology department. I exited with a bachelors degree in genetics, but the extra educational suitcase I had brought along