works of wanderlust

Category: wandering & thinking

  • Dog Days of Summer

    It’s officially summer here in Edmonton where I live, and the days are marked by a sharp increase in temperatures and an equally sharp decrease in my motivation to move with any sort of speed … yes, even when I’m running! Also, it’s been a long, dark winter … at least sixteen months if I

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  • The Value to Comment

    Readers may have noticed that I don’t make commenting available here. This is a conscious choice on my part to limit the conversations about these things that I write about to more open and public platforms and in doing so keep this blog something more personal and deliberately curated. I tend to lean towards the

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  • Be Careful Out There

    It’s been a couple months since I rolled up the hem of my shirt and did some serious blog-related navel-gazing. Yet today is meta-Monday and the last day of May and the day after I posted my one-hundred-and fiftieth daily blog post and just one of those days when I got to thinking about all

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  • Backyard: Blogging (a How-to Guide)

    As spring approaches, and the snow melts into a nurturing moisture that slowly starts to restore the greens to the grass and the leaves to the trees in my little suburban backyard, I find myself looking for excuses to sit in the weak spring sunshine and do those activities I would have just weeks before

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  • Kinda Secret Projects

    I haven’t been entirely forthcoming with my friends and family. In fact, there are very few people who I know in real life who also know that I write in this blog. Maybe… say… five people. I have no real good reason for not self-promoting other than that I wasn’t ready yet. Creativity and personal

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