gathering moss

Philippe de Champaigne, Vanit as ou Allegory of human life,  1646 I went 45 years of my life without ever seeing a dead body, and then I...

I've had it. Officially. You’ve probably heard by now about Meta’s brilliant plan to seed their platforms with AI profiles , followed by...

Closing the books on 2024. As I lay awake in bed this morning at around 4 a.m., wondering whether it was worth the bother of trying to go...

Roundupdate? You may have noticed that my blog posting pace increased dramatically over the last month. That’s because I wasn’t focused...

I’m nine weeks  FIVE weeks (wow it feels like longer than that) post-op and starting to feel like a real, live human being again. I’ve...

I’ve been absent for a while, and this will explain why. I wrote it during the week before my surgery , and I’m now four days post-op. I...

It’s the three month-iversary of my sister’s death, and I’m ready to talk about it a little bit now. Genesis My sister caught a cold, or...

not my actual knee One of the things that happens to you, I guess, when you have a connective tissue disorder, is your bones don't form...

I haven't updated the ol' blog here in a minute, mainly because the last time I went up to Portland I deliberately left my laptop in...

On March 16, my sister died suddenly. I didn't plan to cover my personal life on this blog, and I still don't really want to. I don't...