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Words on Sketching
Learning by doing. It can work, but at some point a guy needs to look to some other sources for guidance and advice. Like, say… a book (or ten.) What was the best anything that you read in 2021? As much as I’ve taken to the internets this past year in an attempt to hone…
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Travel Advisory
It seems almost ironic that the day I set aside to sum up my year in travel, the government of my country leaked that they’ve decided to reinstitute yet another travel advisory sometime in the next day or so. Here we go again. Or, really, here we don’t go anywhere. What is travel anyhow? Getting…
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Travel: Disney in the Time of COVID
My wife has been waking up at three thirty in the morning lately. Deliberately. Her alarm goes off, she activates her phone, logs into the Disneyworld website, and queues up her virtual reservation system trying to get us a dinner seating at a reasonable time and place … for some time next year. I’m not…
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Travel: Fruits, Wines, and a Weekend Half
Two years ago this past weekend the world was a very different place. The world was different enough that we had no issues hopping into the car, driving for nearly ten hours straight, and wending our way across the prairies, over the rocky mountain passes, and into the verdant Okanagan Valley in nearby British Columbia.…
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Hiking: Johnston Canyon
During the summer of 2021 we took a pair of casual family vacations to the mountains. The first and more southern of these was a trip to the proximity of Banff National Park. Four nights in Canmore, Alberta a mountain town just outside of the national park boundary served as the staging point for a…