Health & Wellness
There's a sound food used to make in my head. Not literal — nobody was talking to me from the refrigerator — but a kind of pull, a hum that started around four in the afternoon and got louder until I did something about it. I'd have called
Food & Diet
July 28/26 I spent twenty-seven years walking fields I thought I knew end to end, and it still took me until my forties to notice that the low corner of the back forty flooded first, every single time, even though I'd have sworn on a stack
Food & Diet
July 27/26 When I was young and first cooking for myself, I didn't think about seasons at all. I thought about what was easy, what was cheap, and what I already knew how to make. The farm ran on seasons — it couldn't not — but somehow
I've been moving some things around behind the scenes at Gardener of Life, and I figured I owed you a straight account of it rather than just letting you notice the schedule had changed. Three months into this, I had enough real publishing under my belt to see
Food & Diet
This week's ledger, three items. Same lesson underneath each one: what you assumed was there and what's actually there aren't automatically the same thing, and the only way to close that gap is to go look. Monday, Food & Diet — Twenty-seven years of
Apple & Technology
July 24/26 I never set out to track anything. That was the whole point of the farm — you didn't need a chart to tell you the ground was dry, you just walked out and knew it by the color of the dirt and the way your boots
July 22/26 Of all the numbers the ring hands me each morning, HRV is the one I've come to trust most, and the one I understood least when I started. Heart rate is simple enough — beats per minute, easy to picture. HRV is stranger. It's
Food & Diet
Gardener of Life — Tuesday 7/21/26 You don't find out what you actually have until you go looking for it. Not what you assumed, not what the label promised — what's actually there. This week that happened three times, in three different corners of a life,
Food & Diet
July 20/26 Fish twice a week. That's the number that keeps showing up in the Mediterranean reading I've been doing — not a rule exactly, more like a habit that surfaces again and again when people describe how they actually eat over there. I've
Food & Diet
Sunday Digest — July 19/26 The week's ledger. One thread this week, though it took three shapes to tell it. This week's Long View pulled together the oil, the ring, and the browser — a bottle of olive oil that won out over vegetable oil once I
Apple & Technology
A friend's phone went into the pond last week. Not mine — I'd have felt worse about it if it'd been mine, and that's exactly the thought that got me. She fished it out, dried it off, and it was gone. No screen,
Health & Wellness
The first time I looked at my Libre 3 data, I expected to see meals. What I saw instead was a conversation I didn't know my body was having with itself all day long, meals being just one voice in it. I'd figured the graph would