Small notes on walks, bread, books and repairs.
2026
- Ten years of the same kettle
A small note about an enamel kettle, a chipped lid, and the things in a house that are quietly worth keeping.
- Mushroom season came early
A wet June means chanterelles in mid-July. A short note on the woods, the basket, and the one rule that matters.
- Fixing an old radio
A valve radio from a flea market, three weekends, one dried-out capacitor, and the first crackle of sound coming out of it again.
- Notes on cold
Minus twenty-three on the thermometer by the window, a frozen morning walk, and what I have finally learned about layers.
2025
- Books from a slow summer
What I read between June and September, with one line on each, and the one I gave up on halfway through.
- Three nights without a phone signal
A small cabin on a lake, a wood stove that smoked when the wind came from the north, and the surprising amount of time there is in a day.
- Rye bread, attempt four
Notes from the fourth try at a dense, sour rye loaf, with the numbers this time, so that attempt five does not start from zero.
- The first warm walk
Mud to the ankles, the river high and brown, and the first chiffchaff of the year calling from somewhere I could not see.
- Starting a notebook again
For years I kept paper notebooks. Most of them are in a box now. This is an attempt to keep one that I can actually find things in.