Kelly saw me sitting in the office on Monday, tears streaming down my face. “What’s wrong?” she asked. I hesitated. I was a little embarrassed and not sure how to respond. Finally, I said, “It’s this book I’m reading.” The book in question was Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson, book four of THE STORMLIGHT…
On Monday, both of our girls, ages 5 and 10, finally received the first dose of their COVID vaccines. It was like a weight off of my shoulders. They both bore the injection stoically, if a little nervously. They arrived home with band-aided arms, and smiles on their faces at the thought of getting some…
Welcome to my blog series, “Practically Paperless with Obsidian.” Foran overview of this series, please see Episode 0: Series Overview. Despite everything, I end up with a lot of notes. In the past, this was because I scanned just about all the paper I got into Evernote. Most of that went unused. With Obsidian, I am…
It is that time of year when one article after another is calling for an end to daylight saving time. I thought to add my voice to the mix. When I was younger, I liked daylight saving time in the spring, because it meant I could stay out later. I also slept in later so…
I was doing some holiday shopping and decided to add myself to the list. I bought myself an early present: a home for my Field Notes notebooks: their archival wooden box. Here is what the home looks like, inside and out: I’ve organized the notebooks inside the box by date, which is convenient for me.…
For those who don’t follow along on Twitter or my Facebook page, I post a link to “retro post” once-a-day, selecting from one of the thousands of posts I’ve written here on the blog over the last 15+ years. Here are the retro posts for this week. You might notice a theme for the first half of the…
I’m mentally exhausted, something that happens from time-to-time. So I am taking a day off from writing anything of substance here on the blog. Figured this was a good as any a day to choose to take a day off because it means that I’ll have an extra hour of sleep tonight to help with…
First, let me say I’m a big fan. It wasn’t always that way. I used to think that audiobooks just weren’t for me. But once I tried them, I quickly saw the error of my ways. I became an Audible subscriber in February 2013. Since then I have happily added more than 1,100 books to…
The first frost of the season coated the cars this morning when I headed out for my walk. It was just above freezing at 6:50 am, and still dark. I’m looking forward to Sunday when we roll the clocks back and I can walk earlier in the morning without having to use my iPhone flashlight…
Remember book reports? I had to do countless of these when I was in school, and I was never particularly fond of the task. A book report seemed more like a way of proving I read a book, rather than having actually gotten anything out of it. In grade school, I often had the suspicion…