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book reviews: fathers day
Coinicentally perhaps, all three of the last trio of otherwise-disconnected books I recently read had a thread of fatherhood-related importance running through them. It was Father’s Day yesterday, and my last as the dad of a kid (because The Kid will be An Adult in a couple months) so while I’ll be a dad for
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Pancakes & Pi
Five years ago today I embarked on a multi-year web comic journey. I have May fifth marked in my calendar as a recurring event to remind me that on that day (THIS day) in 2017 I uploaded the first of about 200 comic strips that I wrote and drew. Almost all of those strips are
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Perspective is Everything
As another year comes to an end (in the next few days) it’s hard to remember that just one year ago we were looking with all the hope in the world at 2021 as it approached and left behind a monumentally bad 2020 somewhere in the past. This year hasn’t quite been the surprise gut
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Legacy
I’ve never grown older before, so forgive me if you have and I’m just being obvious. The older I get the more I think about the balance between the entropic impermanence of all things and the human urge to continue creating and planning and hoping in the face of that impermanence. I think it is
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Friday Finds: Pressed Flowers
Fatherhood is funny. Finding honest and interesting things to do with a young child can lead one down all sorts of previously unfollowed paths of creative exploration and into all kinds of time-filling follies. For (nearly) fourteen years I’ve been nudging my daughter to try new things, to explore her creative self, and find fanciful