4 -inch Balls of … These photos of snowballs are not snowballs at all, they’re balls of ice, aka hail. Hail that fell on us for a few minutes a week ago. Some of these balls were made from several small balls smashing into each other and compacted into one, until they became so heavy […]
Month: April 2026
Grateful and Proud: Yukon—It’s all about the Tundra
I took a swipe at the basics of Yukon in my last Grateful and Proud post, and here I’ll try for the vagaries—my feelings about the land and the weather and my experiences: all things Yukon that seemed so foreign to me at the time. My problem, though, is that there’s a lot I feel […]
Podcast: What We’ve Learned from Each Other
Finn and I have, finally, restarted our podcast. You can listen to (and watch) our latest episode, here. Since the last episode in late September, I lost my voice after surgery, I moved, Finn found a path to finishing his Doctorate, I visited him, he visited me, good grief we’ve done everything but add a dang […]
You Don’t Have to Tell Me You’re on Drugs
Illustrated with part 4 of How Funky Is Your Chicken Initial caveat here: there is nothing funny about methadone. I’ve a good friend whose son, Tyler, died of a drug overdose. At several times as part of his recovery he tried to take methadone, and his local clinic made it difficult. The fact that I […]
The Beauty in the Mundane
Finn sent me a link to a book he’s reading, something about creating rituals in your life to make everyday tasks meaningful. I have to admit I didn’t delve into the link, but that’s because it sparked a realization for me that that’s exactly what I’m already doing—how I started living my life in this […]
