• What I learned last week (#152): another round

    What I learned last week (#152): another round

    Learned last week: new movies, our words for 2021, maximizing your time with your boss, and more!

  • Trapped full: our two words for 2021

    Trapped full: our two words for 2021

    As part of a community “postal art project” that started recently, my daughter and I were tasked to come up with a word that describes how we feel about a space in our home or garden after spending so much time in our homes over the past year. Once we chose the word and the…

  • Mars bar on the side

    Mars bar on the side

    I came across somebody’s previous night dinner (or breakfast?!?!) on the streets of Glasgow yesterday.

  • House renovation starts in one month, here is a quick visual tour

    House renovation starts in one month, here is a quick visual tour

    One month from now (January 3rd) we’re starting our home renovation project. It actually started a long time ago really, but this is when we get to take a sledge to the walls and let the joiners, electricians, and plumbers in to start doing their thing. It’s hard to describe what we’re doing to the…

  • Why a shadow career might get me to my dream job

    Why a shadow career might get me to my dream job

    Ever since I heard about the notion of a shadow career I’ve been haunted by it. My current “career” consists of helping artists, writers, and many others make money as professionals, and as an artist myself, I often feel envy when I imagine how great it would be to draw and write for a living.…

  • Hiking to Meikle Bin and meeting the impenetrable forest wall

    Hiking to Meikle Bin and meeting the impenetrable forest wall

    Last Saturday was my “November hike day” and despite the late post here, I did make it out for the fourth consecutive month. The monthly streak of semi-serious hiking is still unbroken!!

  • My favorite music: November 2021 Edition

    My favorite music: November 2021 Edition

    What’s been my eardrums featuring Nightmares on Wax, Amerigo Gazaway, Terrace Martin + more 🔈

  • What I learned last week (#151): three o’clock

    What I learned last week (#151): three o’clock

    Learned last week: mRNA, writing, free diving, and more!