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Photography-ing Again!

Reflections on picking back up a hobby I love but had let lapse.

November 03, 2019Filed under Art#photographyMarkdown source

Review: The Themis Files

A rollicking sci-fi trilogy about the discovery of giant robot mecha.

October 21, 2019Filed under Art#book reviews#science fictionMarkdown source

Beowulf: A Few Thoughts

Notes on the great work of Old English literature.

September 06, 2019Filed under Art#book reviews#literature#reading#typographyMarkdown source

Review: Shades of Milk and Honey

I enjoyed Mary Robinette Kowal’s magic-meets-Regency-romance much more than I expected to.

August 17, 2019Filed under Art#book reviews#fantasy#readingMarkdown source

Time Does Not Heal

January 14, 2019Filed under Art#poetryMarkdown source

Ringworld Review

A classic, Hugo- and Nebula-winning novel: I enjoyed it… but it felt a bit overrated.

October 14, 2018Filed under Art#book reviews#reading#science fictionMarkdown source

Review: The Fated Sky

The sequel is almost as good as the first book.

August 31, 2018Filed under Art#book reviews#mental illness#racism#science fiction#sexismMarkdown source

Review: The Calculating Stars

Mary Robinette Kowal’s book is genuinely brilliant.

August 19, 2018Filed under Art#book reviews#mental illness#science fiction#sexismMarkdown source

A Strange Little Thought

Groundhog Day, temporal loops, agency, the past, etc.

February 23, 2018Filed under Art#ethics#filmMarkdown source

Agent of Change

Sometimes you just need “popcorn”—and this is exactly that.

February 16, 2018Filed under Art#book reviews#science fictionMarkdown source

Icehenge

My introduction to Kim Stanley Robinson (it was a good one).

August 14, 2017Filed under Art#book reviews#mars#science fictionMarkdown source

Beren and Lúthien

A beautiful and fitting close to two men's ouevre.

August 09, 2017Filed under Art#book-reviewsMarkdown source

To paint God as a man

December 23, 2016Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

I am not a Grinch

December 10, 2016Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

escape modernity

July 27, 2016Filed under Art#poetryMarkdown source

Mornings like this

June 05, 2016Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

Ask

May 31, 2016Filed under art#fiction#poetryMarkdown source

the clouds I miss

May 20, 2016Filed under art#poetry#travelMarkdown source

even Easter morning

A Resurrection Sunday meditation

March 27, 2016Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

what darkness crawls on human hearts

A Holy Saturday meditation

March 26, 2016Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

through a paper veil

February 23, 2016Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

Time

January 23, 2016Filed under art#fictionMarkdown source

Fall Haiku

November 22, 2015Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

October was

November 05, 2015Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

Two Podcast Themes

Music for Sap.py and New Rustacean

September 30, 2015Filed under art#musicMarkdown source

On learning to make art

Or, practice is a necessary prerequisite for excellence

September 10, 2015Filed under artMarkdown source

fleet once more

September 10, 2015Filed under art#fitness#poetryMarkdown source

one deer standing in a field

August 12, 2015Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

Lines in the Mirror

July 31, 2015Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

A Leaf

June 17, 2015Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

To Grow Older

June 06, 2015Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

Easier

May 17, 2015Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

Airship

April 30, 2015Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

April Is

April 19, 2015Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

Reflection demands

March 28, 2015Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source

I Wrote It Wrong

July 12, 2014Filed under artMarkdown source

Let The Peoples Praise You

A Setting of Psalm 67

March 31, 2014Filed under art#musicMarkdown source

The Lamb Rampant

February 10, 2014Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source