-
·
Sabbatical recap
Well, my three-month sabbatical is over, and I’m back at work as of Monday. I was off work for 96 days. It was the longest I’ve been off work since my last parental leave in 2017 (about the same in terms of time), but for a good chunk of it the kids were in school…
-
·
Condemned to repeat
Even if you don’t read the news (I’m on a very, very light diet of News Items), it’s impossible not to know that things are pretty ugly out there. This article by Tim Kreider, one of my favorite authors (We Learn Nothing) has written a lot on the general state of the USA and the…
-
·
Summer reading list
I’ve been enjoying a lot of reading time lately, and I am taking advantage by floating between as many books as I feel like it. It’s wonderful.
-
-
·
Is it time to jailbreak my Kindle?
I love my Kindle, and I’m not particularly mad at Amazon, but I do think it might be time to jailbreak the thing so that I can a) explore different ways to use it, b) have a little technical-ish project to do while I’m on sabbatical, and c) educate myself on one more area of…
-
·
The Overstory
The Overstory by Richard Powers won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 2019. I came across it on a list of the 30 best non-fiction books of the last 30 years (Archive.today link). It was long (502 pages). I finished it and liked it very much, but I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone.
-
·
Late spring plantings
We planted some more plants. It was one of the best things I did last week. 🌱
Writing and drawings by Nick.
