Category: cast iron guy

  • Half Ha Ling

    This month marks a year and a half since our local area got caught up in the global pandemic that, among many other things, made world travelling near impossible. We’ve made up for this by trying to find some room between the bad news, ever-shifting-work-life, and many cancelled plans to get away on some local

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  • Back in the Blogging Habit

    Nearly a week into September, and coming off a summer blogging break, I’ve had to get myself back in the mindset of writing daily again. Producing a personal blog with daily content is a lot of work after all. Not that I’m alone in this kind of effort. A summer break, as much as it

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  • Runner en Route

    Sunday Runday, and the day slipped away from me. I plodded out a ten kilometer loop in the wee hours of the morning, running with the same trusty group of friends who have kept me company through a summer of adventure running and virtual race training. Yet over the summer something silly and spontaneous happened

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  • The Artful Joy of Splitting Sourdough

    A friend of mine killed her starter. Dead. I didn’t ask how. Vacations. Life. A summer heat wave. It happens. So a few days later I just split mine and delivered one half it to her in a plastic pouch. Problem solved, and she could go back to baking loaves. This marks the third time

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  • (Sub)urban Sketching

    It will come as no surprise to readers of this blog that I take a lot of photos while travelling. Often with multiple cameras in hand or slung over a shoulder or stuffed in a pocket, it has become a slight obsession to try for an amazing photo while out and about on a the

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