2026 W37: Physical affordances 🔗
§ On Labor Day the family went down to the lakefront to watch the Air Show. Everyone had a good time although the show featured some new over-the-top [...]
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2026 W36: Neighborhood goldfinches 🔗
§ Hello. It is hard to believe it’s already September. § In the garden we finally got our first few ripe tomatillos of the season and our three cayenn [...]
2026 W35: Custom music box 🔗
§ This feels like the last big gasp of summer before autumn starts creeping in. In the garden our first dahlia finally bloomed and our sweet autumn cl [...]
2026 W34: Frighteningly frayed 🔗
§ Last Sunday I found myself at a baseball game for the second time in as many months. This time it was for an end of summer get together caroline’s s [...]
2026 W33: Melancholic falsetto 🔗
§ Hello § At work I spent some time experimenting with a low-pressure sodium vapor lamp. It emits a very narrow spectrum of light that makes everythin [...]
2026 W32: A lot of caprese 🔗
§ Another week has flown by before I was able to get a solid grasp around anything. At this rate it feels like I’m going to wake up next week and it w [...]
2026 W31: Wild carrots 🔗
§ The first fruit on our heirloom tomato plant finally ripened this week. Unfortunately I left it on the vine one day too long and a deer decided to t [...]
2026 W30: Still coasting 🔗
§ The garden seems to be bouncing back after the intense weather we’ve had over the past few weeks. I’ve noticed a handful of new flower buds on the g [...]
2026 W29: Reluctant detective 🔗
§ Monday was Caroline’s and my two-year anniversary. I took off work and we spent a nice relaxing day together. For dinner we went back to the boat sh [...]
2026 W28: Coriander, vinegar, and salt 🔗
§ This week brought the first few ripe blackberries and tomatoes of the season. The Cherokee purple and San Marzano plants are both growing really wel [...]
2026 W27: 35 scrobbles 🔗
§ Northeast Ohio saw a brutal heat wave this week with temperatures in the upper 90s each day. Our fig plant must have enjoyed it—its branches are sud [...]
2026 W26: Cute little certificate 🔗
§ The return trip from Chicago was even more uneventful than the drive there. Caroline and I feel emboldened to do more traveling with the baby in the [...]
2026 W25: Chicago 🔗
§ Hello there. Happy summer solstice, Father’s Day, Juneteenth, etc. § In the vegetable garden our bush beans have started flowering and the tomato pl [...]
2026 W24: Cilantro capers 🔗
§ On Monday I picked our first few ripe strawberries of the season. § Later that evening I installed the new iOS 27 beta. For the most part, it is ful [...]
2026 W23: Fascinating & monolithic 🔗
§ As is tradition this time of year, I found a baby deer in my yard on Monday. This one was more skiddish than most. We can only hope less ravenous to [...]
2026 W22: Hard pressed 🔗
§ The baby is almost seven weeks old now which is a fact I find hard to comprehend. In one sense it feels like he was born only yesterday, in another [...]
2026 W21: Anamorphic 🔗
§ Almost exactly 14 days after sowing and at the first sign of warm sunny weather, the beans I planted all suddenly started sprouting. Also, I found a [...]
2026 W20: Free pockets 🔗
§ In the garden our raspberry bush is flowering and it looks like the blackberry will follow suit any day now. I picked up some tomato, tomatillo, pob [...]
2026 W19: Hypnotic rhythm 🔗
§ It was a week of almost nonstop rain—the downside of the spring season that I always seem to forget about. On Monday I planted ten small patches of [...]
2026 W18: Sleepy, drizzly 🔗
§ It is Sunday already? This week flew by in a sleepy, drizzly haze. My paternity leave is more than halfway over which makes me feel a bit panicky wh [...]
2026 W17: Hubris 🔗
§ I’m risking hubris here but I have to say, when you average it out, the first nearly two weeks of parenthood have gone more smoothly than I feared. [...]
2026 W16: Kieran 🔗
§ Hello. I’ve been keeping a secret from you for the past, well, nine months. I hope you can forgive me. Early Tuesday morning my wife gave birth to a [...]
2026 W15: Cracked rim 🔗
§ The museum I work at serves double-duty as one of eleven NASA visitor centers so this week’s Artemis II mission brought a lot of infectious, excited [...]
2026 W14: Leafing out 🔗
§ Hi, Happy Easter. § Lots of warm, rainy weather this week. In between showers I poked around the garden. Trout lilies went from nonexistent early in [...]
2026 W13: Low-stakes, high-drama 🔗
§ This week has been a bit of a blur thanks in no small part to temperatures ping-ponging more than 30 degrees day-to-day taking my sinuses on a wild [...]