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Would you just use magic if you could?

This summer I spent a lonely week with a terrible cold. I passed the time watching the first three seasons of Bewitched, the old sixties sitcom. I got through so many episodes because, as the show progressed, I felt like I was getting a different impression of Samantha Stevens than I had ever before (since [...]

The itinerant kitchen

We were on foot for four weeks. We never stayed in one place longer than an overnight. Staying around would have meant less time on foot and more time in a hitched ride or bus as we only had the four weeks to get from San Francisco to Portland. The 27 nights went by like [...]

The purpose of a challenge

Challenges make a thing use its greatest capacity to complete a task or, even, to fulfill its purpose. Lacking a challenge, the thing might change its function or go away entirely, leading me to suspect that challenge is crucial to purpose.
Humans’ inclination to displace life’s challenges off of the body and onto a tool has [...]

Taking the world by foot…

For the last five days I have been traveling up the California coast with my partner, soon to be hubby, mostly by foot. We have met some wonderfully friendly people who helped us out when they didn’t need to. The air has been fresh and we are getting stronger everyday. The trip has made me [...]

Werk en Munie

I am about to go back to full time work. This is a relief on our household’s financial situation, but it’s hard to reconcile with the dream of working part time at something relatively easy but engaging and spending the rest of the time as desired. I thought that when I worked full time again [...]