Not really 7000 words. But seven pictures, each theoretically worth 1000 words, would give us that. I had kind of an exhausting week and I didn’t diligently note the interesting moments to write about as I normally do. And I’m still kinda...
go around
My customers in Mexico, and I think most companies there, work very different hours than we do in the US. A typical day is something like 10:00am to 8:00pm, with a two-hour lunch break around 2:00. It’s a really difficult adjustment ...
quite a view
Are you watching the eagle cam? It seems to be all the rage, and I understand exactly why. A mated pair of bald eagles is nesting high in a pine tree overlooking Big Bear Lake, and recently their three eggs have hatched. If you’re...
Lago de Chapultepec
I’ve been to Mexico City several times for work in the last few months, each time staying in the Santa Fe neighborhood. I understand that about thirty years ago, that entire area was undeveloped woodland, and they decided t...
wave that flag, wave it wide and high
another Sunday Seven entry, this one brief
Since the election I’ve been trying to think of a way to indicate this household’s opposition to the regime. I’ve seen arguments that we should just f...
the last picture of this tree
About a year after we moved into this house, we had to cut down an old, triple-trunked birch tree in the backyard. It was unhealthy and thinning, and large limbs were starting to fall. It wasn’t safe for the kids ...
another in the Sunday Seven series
Dawes at the Chop Shop in 2023
My phone was blowing up last Sunday as I was driving from Logan to the hotel I stay at near my office in Lexington. Everyone I know wanted me to be aware that Dawes was opening the Gra...
there’s a light, what light
I managed to get this outdoor lamp installed in the front yard over the weekend. The old one rusted out and fell apart (at least the laws of thermodynamics remain unbroken) and I got the new one up in about an hour....
nothing there
another Sunday Seven
I’m about a week into my post-Instagram life, and I have to say I miss it far less than I thought I might. I’ve quit several social media platforms before, so I know about those withdrawal symptoms: loo...
my kids can fly
Please enjoy another in the Sunday Seven series.
Today marks another tour around the sun for me, the start of my 59th.1 I suppose every day marks another year, or really, every second does. Time’s like that, just marching forwa...
On another platform I used to frequent, there was (and may still be) a tradition called “Sunday Seven” where you’d share seven different ideas, usually in a shorter format of about a paragraph each. I’m going to try to resurrect that here this year o...
I confess I’m feeling something like writer’s block lately. Not because I don’t have ideas I want to explore, but because I find myself overwhelmed by the political and epidemiological crises that are unfolding around us. My thought...
As I’ve mentioned, I am winding down my Facebook experience. There are a couple of things I need to do before I deactivate my account there for good, including completing the email subscription version of this blog, and writing what is likely t...
For Christmas I got a cool little lens kit that clips onto a phone. There’s a telephoto, fisheye, wide angle, and a macro which appears to have a depth of field of a couple millimeters. It’s a bit of a production to attach it right, so it’s not the ...
