We said goodbye the Clementine on December 29, 2021, she was about seventeen years old and had lived with Chessie for years before we met in 2009. She was truly and deeply a member of our family and she will be deeply missed.
Category Archives: personal
5 links, a photo, a deadline.
I haven’t posted anything here since October, but it’s still a bad time in a great many ways. I’m back to work after completing my sabbatical project and working from home every other week. It’s nice to talk more regularly with my co-workers but it’s bad to be doing anything during a pandemic. Coming back …
What are you putting in your head?
I’ve been spending a lot of time alone in my office in the last six months. Alone except for the Internet. I’ve largely managed to get myself away from facebook and twitter since the Pandemic started, and try to cut down on how much I’m on instagram. I’ve managed to taper myself off of facebook …
Writing as cooking
In what is surely an over-used metaphor, it occurred to me today that my writing is similar in a lot of ways to my cooking. Every dish you make is building on the ones you’ve made before. Each egg you fry and each paragraph you write builds on all the past eggs and paragraphs. You …
Recent walks
I’ve been walking after lunch most days and I’ve started taking the same photograph each time, at the spot where there’s a good vista. It makes a nice place to turn around. I’ve been doing this walk, almost every day for a couple of months. It’s just under two miles round trip on the straight …