a sibilant intake of breath

I have heard that historians particularly appreciate when people put actual prices as a reference in their diaries, providing that little quantitative insight into the past.

Emotionally, I feel like I have been put in a metal barrel and rolled down a hill.

VLADIMIR: Do you remember the Gospels?

Photo by Zoë

Any situation we face can develop in a range of different ways — some much better, others much worse.

When I was very young, I learned that there are good emotions (loyal obedience, approval of authority figures) and bad emotions (anger, sadness, simply feeling down) and that I had to avoid expressing the latter.

I think a root cause for why I have been struggling so much with everything in life is that I am desperately fearful and unhappy, and I don’t know what to do about it.

In the past month, I have gone from 371 Common Milkweed observations on iNaturalist (17th in the world) to 678 observations (9th).

All my Toronto walks an bike rides since 2020

I learned when I was very young — so young that I don’t even remember what age — that I needed to tightly control anything my parents knew about my life because, as soon as they became aware of something, they would decide what the right thing to do was,…

They had one too many divers.

Since July 27, 2025 I have observed 371 Common Milkweed (Asclepius syriaca) plants, almost entirely around Toronto.

The National War College is located inside the National Defense University, which is located just across the river from the Pentagon.

I took my Dutch bike in for servicing today (to get my brake pads replaced) and calculated some usage statistics.

A couple of weeks ago I decided to read John Green’s book, Everything is Tuberculosis, in part as research for the novel I am writing about a tuberculosis outbreak.