works of wanderlust

Tag: why i blog

  • 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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  • 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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  • A Blogging Good Anniversary

    A Blogging Good Anniversary

    I occasionally allude to an interesting-to-me fact: I’ve been posting my thoughts online in the form of blogs for a long time. To give that claim some context, as of today I have been a blogger for twenty years. That’s right. On April 20, 2001, twenty years ago to today, I posted my first dispatch

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  • Writing Up a Reason

    Something funny happened nearly three years ago in the months following a sad decision to shutter my sixteen-year-old blog. I did less. No, really. I took fewer photos. I went on fewer adventures. I engaged less and less with new projects. I virtually stopped attempting to tackle new skills. Admittedly, I was busier day-to-day with

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  • One Month Down, Many to Go

    February one. It is the first day of the second month of 2021 and so also the start of my second month of daily blogging here on castironguy.ca. I thought about writing of the challenge of finding time, space, and focus to write here every day for a whole month, and while those words may

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