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The books we read while ills with the flu

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:36:09 +0000

It’s the 11th of January 2026, and without any trouble at all, I caught influenza before the 25th of December; it chose to stay around for approximately three weeks and counting, strain unknown, but it has been a doozer. Charles managed to stay influenza-free, and I managed to compile a list of books while I […]

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What’s for dinner and other questions I can’t answer

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000

There are questions I can answer and questions I cannot, and ‘what’s for dinner’ falls firmly in the second category. When Charles is away, I eat like a raccoon. Crackers. Cheese. Toast and sliced cheese, not to be confused with grilled cheese, toast and tomatoes with tons of pepper, and cereal as a last resort. […]

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Artificial intelligence and photography

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:31:23 +0000

Check this out, an older photograph of Charles, and I replaced the background using A.I. For me, two things: this would have been spectacular if I had thought about the initial photoshoot with actual mountains in the background. Secondly, I’m not sure where I stand on artificial intelligence and photography. As a photographer, I’m at […]

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Did you forget to write?

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:56:22 +0000

We didn’t. If you’ve been following along, you might have noticed the silence. The Instagram posts that stopped and the non-existent, empty blog. It would be easy to assume we forgot, that life got busy, and that was that. We didn’t forget to write. We just stopped writing here, there and everywhere. We journaled our […]

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