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aug

Backpack and luggage on the way to Tiomon Island

Nine regrets

2025-08-10

Ripples in the stream of my life

jul

Bald Peak

2025-07-07

A longish bike ride into my favorite hills

jun

A gravel path heading up a fir forest in autumn

Coastal Pacific Northwest Seasons

2025-06-21

The seven seasons, ranked

Two VALKYR juniors in front of a mural reading Greetings from BEND Oregon

Father’s Day

2025-06-16

On Father’s Day weekend I took my youngest kid to a bike race in Bend

My Inner Republican

2025-06-10

Every liberal has one and should identify what triggers it

Dog day

2025-06-07

Why did I ever go to the river without dogs?

may

Two black dogs in repose on a grassy hillside dotted with lawn daisies. They look out of frame to the left. in the distance are a gravel path, a paved path, and a steep forested hillside across the Willamette River

Dog Person™

2025-05-12

When you live with two dogs you realize what you have become…

apr

Three very young children (ages 1–5) sitting on a living room floor looking at books

How my kids acquired language & built reality

2025-04-27

Each of the kids acquired language, and thereby constructed meaning, in different ways.

Two black dogs, seated, at the edge of a park in spring. The older dog, a fluffly black shepherd mix, looks away from the camera. The smaller black dog, a 14-week old puppy, looks at the camera

The empty shelves will be clarifying

2025-04-21

I can’t escape the feeling that this will be the week the ATMs stop working.

mar

Still from JAWS (1976) where Chief Brody is chumming behind the boat just before the shark appears, for the first time revealing its true size

My favorite film genres

2025-03-10

6) Austrian cop teaches kindergarten

low perspective closeup of a black puppy with a speckled white blaze on his chest, outdoors

Bozeman

2025-03-04

Our household grew by one tiny soul yesterday

feb

A happy black dog with a stick in a snowy stand of Douglas Firs

Agnostic

2025-02-17

Of all of God’s possible properties, “existence” is the least interesting

Several stacks of books and knickknacks on top of a shelf

Abstaining

2025-02-06

I’m not drinking, but I’m not NOT drinking

Furloughs

2025-02-03

I will continue working for free if they can’t pay me.