Category: life & stuff

Generally just words and thoughts on the progress of my day-to-day.

  • Another Life Reset

    Nearly every day for the last year this blog has given me space to think about and write about living a more simple, purposeful life. Better food. Longer walks. Moments of captured creativity. But so what’s my point? Who or what are you leaving behind in 2021? I guess getting to the end of a

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  • My Little Orphan Plant Project

    I’m overstating it a little bit, but for the second time in as many months I found myself browsing through the reject tropical plant rack at another local hardware superstore and filling an handbasket with a motley assortment of discount greenery to bring home. Yesterday I came home with (another) six potted indoor plants, all

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  • Sn’oh Canada

    Well, it was inevitable. This morning there was a few skiffs of snow around the city, but for the most part I could have still raked the autumn leaves dawdling in my backyard. By this evening, a generous blanket had covered the park and streets. I guess it really is time to dig out the

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  • All Hallows’ Eve

    Happy Halloween! With near certainty, within a week or so I’ll be shovelling the sidewalk clear of fresh snow and contemplating pulling my cross country skis from storage. But … as of right now it is still October, the air is crisp but not quite freezing, and as the sun starts to set over to

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  • Holy Molar! (Part Two)

    Life happens. It being Sunday, I went for a run this morning. A Sunday run is not that unusual, you say … well, except for the fact that I’ve been barely conscious for the better part of a week and a half. The nine klick run through the near-freezing suburban trail system was a mix

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