What the tomatoes taught me about patience
Three years of a mediocre tomato harvest finally paid off this summer, and not for any reason I can take credit for. Notes on soil, timing, and giving up on control.
A slow re-read of books I loved at twenty
Some of them held up. Some of them, embarrassingly, did not. A running list of what changed — the books, or me.
On keeping a paper notebook again
After a decade of typing everything, I went back to a notebook for a season. It's slower. That turned out to be the point.
The neighbour's dog, and other small routines
A short piece about the little fixed points that make a week feel like a week, rather than a blur.
Why I stopped tracking everything
A year of habit trackers, step counts, and reading logs, and what I noticed once I quietly let most of them go.