Everyday Commentary

My wife wants a new headboard, after we got rid of our traditional mattress in favor of an adjustable one (because we are old…make fun all you want, I haven’t woken up in the middle of the night since it was set up a month ago). As a result the ambling pace of the knife station build had to be accelerated significantly and so two weekends of focused work brought the project t...

If you haven’t found Jon Gadget on Youtube, you need to go subscribe now. Jon is probably the best exemplar of what I like to think of as “European EDC.” The heavy restrictions on knives and the easy travel from coun...

When you think critically about something for a long time, you come to a certain understanding about that thing. And you recognize others who have done the same by their opinions and preferences. This is why art critics can look at something like Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals, with its simple bands of color a...

In New England we have Pre-Winter, from Halloween until Christmas, Christmas Cold from the 25th until January 1, then True Winter from New Years until the end of March, and after that Post-Winter for most of April. Spring starts in May. And this year, we had snow on the ground, and quite a bit of it, from basically Christmas until the end of March. This was the second snow-ie...