Until this weekend anchovies were a mythical beast, never encountered, but often referred to in popular culture, frequently preceded by “hold the…”, and certainly something I’d avoid if offered. But ...

One of the casualties of Hurricane Fiona, in 2022, was a plum tree that Catherine and her father planted many years ago. The tree had been a prolific producer of plums for years— I made a tasty ...

After taking some time to think about it, my answer was “the power to not care what other people think.” “I can give you that power right now,” he replied. And so now I have it. Lines and paragraphs ...

The upside was that my phone has now started to respond to “Hey Siri” again. I can again easily add items to the household ...

Peggy is a painter—she painted portraits of most of the Cudmore children and grandchildren, she told me—and, at 90, paints ...

Manuel Moreale writes about his frustrations with using Ko-Fi as a "micropayments" system to support his work: ...

We’re in a six week cycle of strength conditioning at Kinetic, and today’s workout was a build to a single “ RPE 10” deadlift (“lift as much as you can while maintaining technique”). I lifted 245 ...

From this point Olivia is now free of the yoke of needing to officially go by one name, and otherwise by her chosen name: she ...

The first time Oliver used the sink at our Malmö Airbnb, he emerged exclaiming “The sink sounds like a didgeridoo!” I asked him to record this, and he emailed me this sound. Which does, indeed, sound ...