miscellany
Happy leaves a mark
Recently my wife looked closely at my face and said, "I like your smile lines." I'm forty-four. By all research findings I've seen lately, I'm probably more than halfway through my life. (Maybe not, but we never really know, you know?) When Felicia said that to me, I replied, "Thank
Happy looks good on me
Or so said Felicia when I sent her this little selfie from a recent walk. Despite a few speedbumps, the last few months have been really positive ones. I have been good to my body. I have eaten better than ever in my life. I have listened to new music,
A good moment
I am enjoying a season of change. Trying new things, taking better care of myself, being gentle with my thoughts. At the moment I feel proud of myself, feel quite lovely, and thought it might be nice to document that–something to look back on, maybe, in some troubling season
Novels and breakfast
Last year—two years ago?—while reading Station Eleven, I came upon these brief lines, in which Clark is thinking of his boyfriend, Robert: Robert in the mornings: he liked to read a novel while he ate breakfast. It was possibly the most civilized habit Clark had ever encountered. As
Preorder The Edge of Sleep for 25% off
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The very first blog post I ever wrote was in 1998. I don't think the word 'blog' was being bandied about quite yet, though I could be wrong. And mine was hardly more than a static site I updated regularly with new entries. I've been thinking lately about how much
The worst kind of time-traveler
All week long I've thought it is a day later than it actually is. Sunday felt like a Monday, Monday like a Tuesday, and so on. You sort of expect this kind of thing to wear off pretty quickly, but no, here it is a Wednesday and I woke up
The most beautiful song?
Recently saw a survey on the internet: What's the most beautiful song you've ever heard? For my money, it might just be Nancy Wilson's "Elevator Beat," played sixty-four times in a row. (Here it is on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/track/4NMayXijQb1CNfZU6miVCx?si=09e4afd0e12a4351], and here it is on
Not enough banjos on the internet
Recently I saw a video of a musician serenading a fox [https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/s66lvs/playing_banjo_for_a_wild_fox_he_came_back_for_an/] . Afterward, I went looking for ambient/instrumental banjo music. It's hard to find that sort of thing; most of it