2025-01-06: Finished reading: The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen 📚 What a delightful …
2025-01-04: New post with my favorite books from 2024 along with updates to my reading system. My year in books …
2025-01-04: My Year of Reading in 2024 I read 53 books last year, split about evenly between physical and e-books, and listened to just one …
2024-12-31: Finished reading: Rousseau and Revolution by Will Durant 📚 The tenth volume of the Story of …
2024-12-30: Finished reading: The Work of Art by Adam Moss 📚
2024-12-30: Finished reading: The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl 📚
2024-12-30: Finished reading: The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke 📚
2024-12-30: Finished reading: Thinking on Paper by V.A. Howard, J.H. Barton 📚
2024-12-30: Finished reading: James by Percival Everett 📚
2024-12-14: Finished reading: A Rage in Harlem (Special Edition) by Chester Himes 📚 What a crazy rollercoaster …
2024-12-05: Finished reading: Needful Things by Stephen King 📚 This one missed the mark for me. Too many …
2024-11-19: Finished reading: A System for Writing by Bob Noto 📚 A guide to the Zettelkasten method of …
2024-11-10: Wrist pain prompted me to set aside my Magic keyboard and Mighty Mouse for more ergonomic options. …
2024-11-08: Finished reading: The Age of Voltaire by Will Durant 📚 Continuing my quest to read all eleven …
2024-11-05: Finished reading: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett 📚 I came for the essays on …
2024-11-03: Finished reading: The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner 📚 A poignant novel on retirement, the …
2024-10-28: Finished reading: The Elephant Whisperer by Anthony Lawrence 📚 I enjoyed these episodic adventures …
2024-10-13: Currently reading: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett 📚
2024-10-02: Finished reading: Spook Street by Mick Herron 📚 The fourth Slow Horses book was fun. These books …
2024-09-25: Finished reading: The Age of Louis XIV by Will Durant Finished reading: The Age of Louis XIV by Will Durant 📚 My straight-through reading of this mammoth …
2024-09-19: From this week’s release notes from journaling app Day One: By streamlining the app’s …
2024-09-09: New Index Card Organizer for Notes I’m trying out a new note-taking method. I’ve switched from Field Notes to this custom …
2024-09-08: Finished reading: Somehow by Anne Lamott 📚 I loved Lamott’s Bird by Bird memoir on the writing …
2024-09-07: “Book-wrapt — that beneficent feeling of being wholly imbooked, beshelved, inlibriated, …
2024-09-07: What’s the best way to ask for @help on Micro.blog? I tagged @Manton in this post, but …
2024-09-06: Finished reading: Table for Two by Amor Towles 📚 I’ll read anything that Amor Towles writes. …
2024-09-05: Community is a body of people crying for one another, working together for a common cause, enjoying …
2024-09-04: I was getting tension headaches from too many hours of looking down at a book at night, so I bought …
2024-09-03: For fun, I asked ChatGPT to create a cover image for an essay I wrote. The essay mentions old books …
2024-09-02: Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t …
2024-09-01: From Are Bookstores Just a Waste of Space? (New Yorker): Two-thirds of the books released by the …
2024-09-01: Bookshelves Completed Date vs. Date Read A question for @manton about using the bookshelves feature in Micro.blog: I’ve noticed that …
2024-08-29: Currently reading: Somehow by Anne Lamott 📚
2024-08-29: Finished reading: The Public Library by Robert Dawson 📚
2024-08-26: Currently reading: The Public Library by Robert Dawson 📚
2024-08-26: Currently reading: Table for Two by Amor Towles 📚
2024-08-25: Finished reading: The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis 📚 Who knew a book about Chess could be so …
2024-08-21: Currently reading: The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis 📚
2024-08-21: Finished reading: City of Glass by Paul Auster 📚 A strange meta-detective novel with an unreliable …
2024-08-19: Currently reading: The Age of Louis XIV by Will Durant 📚
2024-08-19: Finished reading: The Age of Reason Begins by Will Durant 📚 My quest to read all eleven volumes of …
2024-08-19: Finished reading: Here is New York by E. B. White
2024-08-18: Finished reading: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 📚
2024-07-23: Finished reading: Move on Down to Mexico by 📚
2024-07-20: Finished reading: Real Tigers by Mick Herron 📚
2024-07-20: Currently reading: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 📚
2024-07-16: Currently reading: Real Tigers by Mick Herron 📚
2024-07-16: Finished reading: You Like It Darker by Stephen King 📚 This is a wonderful collection of short …
2024-07-13: Finished reading: Dead Lions by Mick Herron 📚 My second Slow Horses book and just as good as the …
2024-07-07: I’ve seen so many beautiful postcards and photos of Crater Lake over my life. None of them, …
2024-07-06: We’re one week into a six-week circuit from Arizona through Nevada and Oregon to Washington State, …
2024-06-30: Currently listening: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings by …
2024-06-28: Currently reading: Dead Lions by Mick Herron 📚
2024-06-28: Finished reading: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 📚 I enjoyed the setting of the …
2024-06-27: Finished reading: Consolations by David Whyte 📚 Ah, what a treasure. Two to three page poetic essays …
2024-06-20: Currently reading: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 📚
2024-06-20: David Whyte: A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones, onto which we calmly place our …
2024-06-20: Finished reading: The Regulators by Richard Bachman/Stephen King 📚★★★☆☆ Continuing my quest to read …
2024-06-17: There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my …
2024-06-12: Finished reading: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 📚 This book was nothing like I expected. Frankenstein …
2024-06-07: Currently reading: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 📚 Slow to post this, but I’m doing a group read of …
2024-06-07: Currently reading: The Regulators by Richard Bachman 📚
2024-06-06: Finished reading: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 📚 I had an idea that this was a story about …
2024-06-06: Celebrating Three Years of Sobriety I passed my third anniversary of giving up alcohol today. I thought I would share some background on …
2024-06-06: Celebrating Three Years of Sobriety I passed my third anniversary of giving up alcohol today. I thought I would share some background on …
2024-05-31: Currently reading: The Age of Reason Begins by Will Durant 📚 One of the great diseases of this age …
2024-05-30: Currently reading: The Age of Reason Begins by Will Durant 📚 I took a short break in my marathon …
2024-05-30: Reading a Book in 15 Minutes Interesting and humorous article by Anthony Lane in the New Yorker about the book summary app …
2024-05-30: Finished reading: 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 📚 I know I’ve read this a long time …
2024-05-27: The Booksellers documentary is so, so good. All the bookshelves, rare books, home libraries … …
2024-05-18: Finished reading: Stories of Books and Libraries by Jane Holloway (ed.) 📚 A book of short stories, …
2024-05-06: Thank Your Teachers I came across a journal entry I wrote on this day ten years ago. I was reflecting on the people in …
2024-05-04: David Copperfield and the Magic of Amazon WhisperSync I’m currently reading the classic David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 📚 for the first time. I’m …
2024-05-03: Currently reading: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 📚
2024-05-02: Finished reading: The Death of Grass by John Christopher 📚 A short 1950s SciFi novel about a virus …
2024-05-01: Finished reading: The Reformation by Will Durant 📚
2024-04-30: Currently reading: The Death of Grass by John Christopher 📚
2024-04-30: How A Hidden Feature in Bear Changed the Way I Review Notes This is the second of what might become a series of posts about how I use the Bear app to improve …
2024-04-30: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 30: Hometown Vashon Island will always be my hometown.
2024-04-29: Finished reading: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 📚 An absolute masterpiece. Totally gutted by …
2024-04-29: Finished reading: Sibley’s Birding Basics by David Allen Sibley 📚 Ah, the inevitable slide …
2024-04-29: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 29: Drift
2024-04-28: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 28: Community Of all the communities I’ve been a …
2024-04-27: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 27: Surprise My all-time favorite Surprise. In fact, …
2024-04-26: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 26: Critters
2024-04-25: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 25: Spine The spine of this tattered old book tells a …
2024-04-25: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 24: Light Is there anything more mesmerizing than the …
2024-04-23: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 23: Dreamy
2024-04-22: Currently reading: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 📚
2024-04-22: Finished reading: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 📚 Characters who love books and …
2024-04-22: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 22: Blue Crossing the Strait of Juan de Fuca on a …
2024-04-21: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 21: Mountain Mount Rainier while under sail in …
2024-04-20: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 20: Ice The winter before we moved full time to …
2024-04-20: Currently reading: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 📚
2024-04-19: Finished reading: Desperation by Stephen King 📚 Maybe not one of Mr. King’s best efforts, but it was …
2024-04-19: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 19: Birthday A puppy for my son’s 13th birthday back in …
2024-04-18: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 18: Mood Tonight’s camp site here in the Mojave …
2024-04-17: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 17: Transcendence La Ventana Arch, New Mexico
2024-04-16: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 16: **flâneur** 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 16: flâneur Today’s photo theme reminds me of …
2024-04-15: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 15: Small I’ve never felt quite so small or felt …
2024-04-14: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 14: Cactus
2024-04-13: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 13: Page A random page from The House of Leaves by Mark …
2024-04-12: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 12: Magic
2024-04-11: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 11: Sky
2024-04-10: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 10: Train Hobo bunnies waiting on a train in Ladysmith, …
2024-04-09: 🥓 Day 9: Crispy | prompt submitted by @rom As an antidote to yesterday’s prevention theme, …
2024-04-08: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 8: Prevention
2024-04-07: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 7: Well-being
2024-04-06: Currently reading: Desperation by Stephen King 📚 Tackling the remaining Stephen King books I haven’t …
2024-04-06: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 6: Windy Gale force winds aboard MV Indiscretion.
2024-04-05: Finished reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 📚 I loved this short, spare novella. In …
2024-04-05: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 5: Serene Toba Inlet, British Columbia, aboard MV …
2024-04-04: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 4: Foliage
2024-04-03: Currently reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 📚
2024-04-03: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 3: Card A Father’s Day card from my son Connor in …
2024-04-02: 📷 April 2024 Micro.Blog photo challenge, Day 2: Flowers
2024-04-01: 📷 Day01 : toy (@pcora)
2024-04-01: Currently reading: Slow Horses by Mick Herron 📚 Lamb’s laugh wasn’t a genuine surrender to …
2024-03-31: Finished reading: The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry 📚★★★★★ Better than any argument is to …
2024-03-26: Currently reading: Sibley’s Birding Basics by David Allen Sibley 📚
2024-03-23: Finished reading: Dune by Frank Herbert 📚 ★★★★★
2024-03-18: There is no better teacher than history in determining the future. There are answers worth billions …
2024-03-17: Camped along the Colorado River here at Davis Camp on the Arizona-Nevada border. Smaller rigs can …
2024-03-03: Currently reading: Dune by Frank Herbert 📚 Rereading ahead of seeing the movie. I had forgotten how …
2024-03-03: Finished reading: I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh 📚 ★★★☆☆
2024-03-01: The End of Private Libraries There seem to be two kinds of people on this earth—those who love books and everyone else. The …
2024-03-01: The End of Private Libraries There seem to be two kinds of people on this earth—those who love books and everyone else. The …
2024-02-23: After three good years with Craft, I’ve moved my reading notes and PKM to Bear. I really love …
2024-02-23: Bear 2 for Writing and Thinking For the past six weeks, I’ve been evaluating an app to replace Craft for my reading notes.This post …
2024-02-18: Currently reading: I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh 📚
2024-02-15: Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 📚 This was a good book. I …
2024-02-10: Mac-only Apps I’ve been evaluating Bear 2 to replace Craft for my reading notes and quasi-Zettelkasten for …
2024-02-03: Finished reading: The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 📚
2024-01-29: Currently reading: The Reformation by Will Durant 📚
2024-01-28: Finished reading: The Renaissance by Will Durant 📚
2024-01-26: Reading The Story of Civilization In the spring of last year, I started reading The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant. …
2024-01-26: Reading The Story of Civilization In the spring of last year, I started reading The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant. …
2024-01-21: Steinbeck captures my basic attitude towards New Years Resolutions here in the third week of …
2024-01-19: My Two Journals I surprised myself a little over a year ago by writing in a paper journal every morning. The …
2024-01-16: It’s been a couple years since I finished In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. I read all six …
2024-01-12: Currently reading: The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 📚
2024-01-12: As personal finance apps go, Quicken Classic for Mac is pretty good these days. Here’s my …
2024-01-12: Quicken Classic for Mac - A Long-time User Review I’ve used some version of Quicken for 35 years. That puts me in a stodgy demographic that manages …
2024-01-04: Finished reading: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree 📚
2024-01-01: I shared my favorite books of 2023 in My Year of Reading. 📚
2024-01-01: My Year in Reading I read 75 books in 2023, my high water mark for the most reading in a year. Books have always been …
2023-12-31: Finished reading: Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li 📚 My 75th book of 2023, which is a new …
2023-12-30: Currently reading: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong …
2023-12-30: Finished reading: Holly by Stephen King 📚
2023-12-27: I found this lovely bookmark in my Christmas stocking. Santa knows me so well! 📚
2023-12-20: The Private Library by Reid Byers Finished reading: The Private Library by Reid Byers 📚 Book-wrapt — that beneficient feeling of …
2023-12-20: Currently reading: Holly by Stephen King 📚
2023-12-18: Finished reading: Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark 📚 A slow read over the course of a few months, …
2023-12-17: Finished reading: The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. Watts 📚 Another …
2023-12-16: Currently reading: Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li 📚
2023-12-14: Finished reading: The Vagabond’s Way by Rolf Potts 📚
2023-12-13: Stephen King Finished reading: Christine and Blaze by Stephen King 📚 Continuing my quest to read the Stephen King …
2023-12-10: The Age of Faith by Will Durant Finished reading: The Age of Faith by Will Durant 📚 I finished this fourth installment of Will …
2023-11-30: Finished reading: Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross 📚 Your Brain on Art is the latest …
2023-11-19: Finished reading: The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now by Thich Nhat Hanh 📚 …
2023-11-14: Currently reading: The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now by Thich Nhat Hanh 📚
2023-11-14: Finished reading: The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King 📚 Continuing my quest to go back and read …
2023-11-13: Finished reading: The Silentiary by Antonio Di Benedetto 📚 What a strange little book. The narrator …
2023-11-10: Started reading: Your Brain on Art by Susan Magsamen 📚
2023-11-08: Enjoying a pint of Athletic Brewing non-alcoholic beer tonight. I gave up alcohol a few years ago, …
2023-11-07: Finished reading: Skeleton Crew by Stephen King 📚 Working through the few books of Stephen King I …
2023-10-24: Replace “book” with “blog” and you’ve captured what makes a community …
2023-10-23: Fascinating article in The Economist this week about the effort underway by computer scientists to …
2023-10-21: 🍿Went to see Killers of the Flower Moon last night. Parts of the movie were extraordinary. Such a …
2023-10-20: Currently reading: Skeleton Crew by Stephen King 📚 Working my way through the backlog of Stephen …
2023-10-19: Getting some culture today at the Phoenix Art Museum. Since moving to the area last December, we try …
2023-10-18: The first lesson of philosophy is that we cannot be wise about everything. We are fragments in …
2023-10-17: Finished reading: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride 📚 A good premise perhaps …
2023-10-17: The English word lost derives from the Old Norse los, which refers to the disbanding of an army. …
2023-10-15: The Curiosity of Micro.blog How I fell into a trance with the Indy blog service, Micro.blog, is a curious story. I received a …
2023-10-15: The Curiosity of Micro.blog How I fell into a trance with the Indy blog service, Micro.blog, is a curious story. I received a …
2023-10-14: Finished reading: Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane 📚 Mary Pat Fennessy is one of the most compelling …
2023-10-13: A Slow Read of the Story of Civilization 📚 I’ve had this old set of Will and Ariel Durant’s Pulitzer-prize-winning Story of …
2023-10-12: Currently reading: The Age of Faith by Will Durant 📚
2023-10-11: I’ve wanted to see the Grand Canyon for as long I could remember. I think it was a Brady Bunch …
2023-09-02: The Wastelands Grieving the loss of a child is a journey through wastelands you never expected to cross. Unlike …
2023-09-02: The Wastelands Grieving the loss of a child is a journey through wastelands you never expected to cross. Unlike …
2023-01-06: A Father’s Grief This is the most difficult thing I've ever written. I’m sharing this partly because I hope that …
2023-01-06: A Father’s Grief This is the most difficult thing I’ve ever written. I’m sharing this partly because I hope that …
2022-04-21: The Art of Letting Go If the first half of life is about growing and accumulating, then the second half must see us …
2022-04-21: The Art of Letting Go If the first half of life is about growing and accumulating, then the second half must see us …
2022-02-26:
A Writer’s Journal: Day One or Craft?
I’ve kept a journal for most of my adult life. I got started in my early twenties filling dozens of …
2022-02-26: A Writer’s Journal: Day One or Craft? I’ve kept a journal for most of my adult life. I got started in my early twenties filling dozens of …
2022-01-13:
Read Better with Craft and Readwise
Have you ever run across a book you know you’ve read but can’t recall much about it? Or, come …
2022-01-13: Read Better with Craft and Readwise Have you ever run across a book you know you’ve read but can’t recall much about it? Or, come across …
2021-12-30:
Keep the Change
As I walked through the throng of travelers at LAX recently on my way to a flight that would be …
2021-12-30: Keep the Change As I walked through the throng of travelers at LAX recently on my way to a flight that would be …
2021-12-15:
The Craft App —A Year of Magical Linking
It’s been a year since I adopted Craft as my primary research and note-taking app. I shared my …
2021-12-15: The Craft App —A Year of Magical Linking It’s been a year since I adopted Craft as my primary research and note-taking app. I shared my …
2021-10-23:
Grammarly, Ulysses and Lost Links
I’m a long-time subscriber of Grammarly, the subscription-based grammar checking and proofreading …
2021-10-05:
Reading Deeply
I spend a lot of time with my nose in a book. Last year, I read 61 books, and I'm on track to read …
2021-09-24:
Writing Things Down in a Paperless World
For the past ten years, I have been on a mission to eradicate paper from my work and home life. I …
2021-09-02:
Organizing the Tool Shed
In my office, I keep an old photograph of the Buckaroo Tavern in the Seattle neighborhood of …
2021-01-21:
Want to Keep a Journal? Go Digital
I’ve kept a personal journal for most of my adult life. These journals have helped me wrestle with …
2021-01-07:
The New Craft App Does More Than Keep Notes
About a month ago, I started using a new Mac/iOS app called Craft to help me make sense of books I …
2020-11-09:
Quicken 2020 for Mac - A Long-time User’s Review
Welcome to my third annual review of the personal finance software, Quicken for Mac. I have been …
2020-06-21:
Coaches
I'm told I say it every year, but today was certainly the best Father's Day ever. Being spoiled by …
2020-04-01: Take Comfort in the Small Things So many worries. Our future unknown and uncertain. Quarantine and isolation. And yet … these …
2020-01-17:
Read More Books: Read More Than One Book at a Time
The latest in a series of tips to help you read at least 50 books a year without feeling like …
2020-01-09:
Read More Books: Listen to Audiobooks
Reading books is one of life’s great rewards, but in today’s increasingly distractible environment, …
2020-01-01:
Read More Books: Set a Goal and Have a System of Follow Through
Reading books is one of life’s great rewards, but in today’s increasingly distractible environment, …
2019-12-30:
Read More: Make Use of Short Breaks during the Day
Reading books is one of life’s great rewards, but in today’s increasingly distractible environment, …
2019-12-24:
How to Read More: Meet Libby, Your Digital Librarian
Reading books is one of life’s great rewards, but in today’s increasingly distractible environment, …
2019-12-17:
Read More Books with GoodReads.com
Reading books is one of life’s great rewards, but in today’s increasingly distractible environment, …
2019-12-10:
How to Read More: Use a Kindle
Reading books is one of life’s great rewards, but in today’s increasingly distractable environment, …
2019-12-04:
In Defense of Reading
I have read 50 books so far this year, though it doesn’t feel like I’m really reading that much. I …
2019-09-25:
One Simple Tip to Improve your Day One Journal
Want to establish a consistent journaling habit and record your most important life events? Let me …
2019-09-14:
Going Paperless: Tools and Tips
I have kept a paperless office for nearly a decade. The technology has improved a lot since I …
2019-06-20: Indiscretion Has Her Own Blog! We have a new blog for our adventures aboard our Nordhavn trawler, MV Indiscretion. We’re leaving …
2019-04-05:
A Wheelhouse at Night
I’m writing this tonight from the settee of Indiscretion’s wheelhouse — one hell of a place to put …
2019-03-22:
Backing to Port
When we purchased Indiscretion late last summer, we knew we needed help in getting to know our new …
2019-03-15:
RTFM
Indiscretion, our Nordhavn trawler, has a Maretron onboard computer system which monitors most of …
2019-03-08:
Engine Maintenance - Favorite Class Ever?
Lisa and I attended a training session at Northern Lights in Ballard, the company that manufactured …
2019-01-28:
Fear of Flying
I spent last weekend in Las Vegas to attend my niece’s Little White Chapel wedding on the Strip. …
2019-01-06:
Quicken 2019 for Mac Review
See my Quicken 2020 for Mac Review for the most recent review. I have been using Quicken to manage …
2018-12-12:
Happy Birthday, Patrick O'Brian!
Patrick O’Brian, the author of the Aubrey-Maturin seafaring novels, would have been 104 years old …
2018-10-16:
Eartec Wireless Radios - The Marriage Saver
Lisa and I have celebrated 22 wedding anniversaries. For at least the past dozen years, we haven’t …
2018-08-15:
A Sailor Crosses the Bar (Part Two)
After two decades of sailing, we have crossed over to the dark side. A few weeks ago we bought a …
2018-06-15:
A Sailor Looks at Crossing the Bar (Part One)
When I was starting out in public accounting, nearly thirty years ago, I got the chance to work for …
2018-04-17: The Ferry Commuter's Secret I’ve taken over 6,000 ferry rides since moving to Vashon Island. Most of these were uneventful …
2018-01-26:
Book or Computer? The Best Place to Keep your Journal
This is the second installment of a multi-part series on journal writing. The first post described …
2018-01-17:
Five Reasons You Should Keep a Journal
You should keep a journal and ideally write in it every day. You’ve likely heard that advice …
2018-01-05:
Quicken 2018 for Mac - A Long-time User Review
An update to this review for Quicken 2019 for Mac is available here. Personal financial management …
2017-12-20:
A Golden Age for Reading Books
While reading books might be waning in today’s mobile phone obsessed, Facebook generation, the tools …
2017-07-14: Sanctuary Batman has his cave; Ironman has his lab; but for me, this place and my books provide such a great …
2017-01-08:
Losses and Gains
Back in my early thirties, my uncle Jim died unexpectedly. He had a lifelong passion of sailing, …
2016-01-26: House Guest I’ve always been a big reader and dreamed of having my own private library for as long as I …
2014-07-16:
Valencia of Childhood Dreams
When I was a boy, younger than twelve-year-old Connor is now, I believed all the stories my dear Pop …