Category: deeper thoughts

  • raising calvin

    raising calvin

    I grew up on a steady diet of Calvin & Hobbes.  The still-famous cartoon strip by Bill Watterson was a fixture in our local newspaper during the entirety of my teenage existence, one of the sole reasons I read the paper that I delivered door to door, clipping out my favourite strips and then later

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  • leaning positive

    leaning positive

    Angry sells. Have you noticed? You probably have. I mean, isn’t that why we are living in these unprecidented times? Angry people, rage, fails, and violence all seem to generate more clicks, more views, voter turnout? I wrote a couple weeks ago about the weird fluctuations in my traffic. Some days I get a lot

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  • Just A Re-introduction

    Just A Re-introduction

    The Cast Iron Guy was my pandemic project. I needed an optimistic moment in every day, something thru with to look out onto a crazy world and find something solid and reliable. If you’ve come here looking for in depth cast iron cooking advice, or one of those guys who uses electrolysis to do amazing

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  • three-sixty-five.

    three-sixty-five.

    I don’t want to say I’ve been saving up for this post, but after two years and two months of keeping a so-called “daily” blog, this — what you’re reading right now — is post three-sixty-five. One post per day for one full year. This should have been the post I wrote on December 31,

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  • long ago, and far from now

    long ago, and far from now

    December 27 of 31 December-ish posts What do you want the world to look like in the future? The past is behind us. The present is fleeting. The future is what you make it. What do you think the world will be like 25 years in the future? Every day I get up and think about my day.

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