works of wanderlust

Category: life & stuff

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

  • Ready for the Weekend

    How do you prepare for your weekend? Do you pick away at your to-do list over the week, so that when you catch up with Friday night you are free and clear, ready to enjoy everything? Sure, this means that you’ve saved up all your down-time for those two precious days, but when Saturday and

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  • One Hundred (Incredible) Years

    I found myself in a local drugstore this weekend, standing in the greeting card aisle, picking out a birthday card. The selection was limited. Limited, not because the store was lacking in birthday cards, but because there was only one option with the correct age number printed on the front: 100. While we’ve spoken on

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  • May Long Weekend

    Just like the saying goes not to wear white after labour day, locally there seems to be a start line for the summer season: May long weekend. As of posting this I’ve wrapped up my work week and I am planning how to spend the first official three day weekend of the vague, loosely-defined stretch

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  • Backyard: Saturday (or, a list of rejected backyard blog topics)

    After nearly a week of deeper restrictions that have left me (and most law-abiding residents of the city) without many places to go, I’ve turned that into an opportunity to enjoy my own backyard. Think of it less like a lockdown, and more like permission to do nothing but enjoy my own grass, trees, garden,

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  • Backyard: Clean-Up

    It’s always striking to me that we live in a deeply seasonal place. I’m sure that other parts of the planet go through their own share of seasonal variation, but living in one of the more northern capital cities on the Earth also makes places us in a group where vast differences exist between the

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