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The meds I do every morning to manage my little collection of physical ailments don’t always do it for me. Sometimes, the pain goes far beyond what a few Tylenol…

Publisher (Slingshot Books)

Mid-August Blues  by: Jessica Purdy Jessica Purdy’s two recent chapbooks are: The Adorable Knife poems based on The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death (Grey Book Press), and You’re Never the…

We jokingly call these meaty, greeny, cheesy, beany, spicy baked chickpeas because, well, internet recipe naming conventions make us laugh but I really think of them as Pizza Beans 2.0.…

Story of incredible journeys of food products from their source regions to your market, showing how widespread the effort is to fight hunger in your community.

A year ago I tried using an M1 iMac for work duty but its 21" screen took up too much room on my desk. After seeing Sean's video on Action…

I came across a sparrow yesterday on the busy corner near B&A’s daycare on the way to pick them up. It looked like a tiny pile of leaves on the…

Verschlimmbessern is a portmanteau that blends the German words “verschlimmern” (to make worse) and “verbessern” (to improve). The result? A single word that perfectly captures the act of making something…

Roden Readers — Hello from the train! I’m en route — once again — to KII PENINSULA which many of you know is where my book Things Become Other Things takes place.…

As I am launching BBEdit to start this new post, there is a sense of pointlessness raining on me. World news, with the U.S. at the epicentre, seriously stinks these…

Over the past few years, I’ve set a couple of agreements with myself that have turned out to be really powerful. I can eat whatever I want as long as…

Much of what I do, in multiple fields, could be reduced to one skill: troubleshooting. I’ll define troubleshooting as systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and…

THERE ARE DECADES WHEN possibility is constrained in a narrow frame. The terrain has been surveyed, boundaries have been laid, and rules have been established. In such an age there…

i had the best risotto milanese in Milan, perhaps surprisingly enough. the worst was in a carluccio’s in chiswick and was the closest thing to vomit i’ve ever been served…

Manuel Moreale has a comment up on his blog that’s in response to someone else’s writing. This post of mine is in response to Manuel’s post. It’s somewhat unfortunate that…

These last few months have been a whirlwind, haven't they?

I’m not out to shame people for their purchases, just to caution uninitiated typewriter purchasers and budding collectors who aren’t carefully watching the market. Olympia SM3s are well-touted and excellent…

As a subscriber to my blog through RSS, I wanted to let you know about some changes. You are now reading my work blog, where I focus mainly on accessibility…

So I disassembled my Whirlpool AP330W air purifier, and yes I keep thinking this was a white label, low-quality job, and it's possible there is no real way to replace…

After dragging my heals for years I finally hung new art posters on the wall, plus a short trip down resampling algorithm lane.