Writer, Dabbler In Things
Occasionally, a question strikes me that I can’t quite shake. Not just the big ones that will often occur to us — Why are we here? How are we here? If energy can’t be created or destroyed, what went bang in the Big Bang? — but way, way smaller. Hence part of the irritation: How … Read more
I realized about a decade ago that everything happens in phases. This may come across as old news to some — “the only constant is that everything changes”, as the saying goes — but that fact seems to hit me at particular times that stand out as a clear shift in something. I was at … Read more
(… and other headlines you’ve never read before…) You ever have one of those “ah-HA!” moments when you realize something that you hadn’t understood before? And maybe you feel a bit dumb about it, because you should’ve gotten it earlier? But it’s kinda not on you? Only it is, at least a bit? You know … Read more
A month ago I went for a medical exam to look at booking a minor operation, and in the pre-exam they check everyone’s height and weight and blood pressure. The usual things. Later, as I was in talking to the doctor, he was very frank about everything, and he brought up my weight. He asked, … Read more
As I picked up my ebook again this morning, I realized that I was continuing to read from right where I’d left off… two days ago. I cast my mind back to yesterday to recall if I had read farther than I recalled, or maybe read some of the other book I’m reading–now’s one of … Read more
I recently read this (short!) post advising–with good reason–that people should write shorter stuff but more often. It struck a chord with me. I do, as I’m sometimes reminded (usually by my wife and daughter) tend to over-verbalize/over-write things. My wife sometimes tells me that when someone asks what time it is I tell them … Read more
It’s been a busy month of hunting things down for the reno and running around and picking up and dropping off and meeting and stress and calls and emails and then rinsing and repeating. I thought faucets were overabundant. But that’s only because we hadn’t gone too deep into the world of lighting. Good lord. … Read more
You know what the world doesn’t need more of?Kinds of faucets. There are, I can say without risk of hyperbole, about nine and a half quintillion kinds of faucets available within a 30 minute drive of my place. And when needing to shop for some, it doesn’t matter which ones you’re considering, they are guaranteed … Read more
Being in Canada, we get plenty of our entertainment from American sources. Sometimes on TV, that comes via American broadcasters who, of course, run American commercials. And sometimes–not often, but plenty, thanks–those ads are for pharmaceuticals. And I’m struck more often than not when those ads play, just how little of the ad time talks … Read more
Regulars here may notice that I freshened up the site with a new look. What do you think? Gone are the bulky header photo (on every page, which was an… interesting choice on the part of slightly younger me) and extraneous header title info on the other pages of the site.Trimmed down is the sidebar … Read more