Food & Diet
Nov. 10/26 You can learn a lot about an orchard from the road. Whether the trees are standing, whether the rows are clean, whether somebody's been irrigating. Some of it's even right. But the road only gets you so far, and the farmer in me
Apple & Technology
Nov. 6/26 I've been typing for a living longer than I'd like to count, and this week I put the keyboard down and talked. The habit was plain: dictate one seed post with Superwhisper instead of typing it. Press the shortcut, say the thing, let
Food & Diet
Nov. 3/26 Nobody sets out to hold a belief they've never checked. It gets in the way a weed gets into a fence row, quietly, and by the time you notice it, it's been standing there long enough to look like it belongs. All three
Food & Diet
Oct. 27/26 Every recommendation I got on the ranch was written for somebody else's ground. The extension bulletin said flood the rice checks to four inches, and it was a good bulletin, written by people who knew what they were doing. It got you into the right
Health & Wellness
Oct. 20/26 I've spent a good part of this year working alongside an AI assistant, and I'll say it plainly: it has changed how I work. It's quick, it catches what I miss, and it has become part of the daily furniture. It
Food & Diet
Oct. 13/26 Oct 13/26 During harvest, the day started before the sun did, and breakfast wasn't a suggestion — it was fuel you loaded before a shift that might not let up until dark. Eggs, usually two or three. Bacon or ham off whoever raised it. Toast
Food & Diet
Oct 6/26 Some mornings I know the number before I look. Roll over, tap the phone, and there it is, confirming what I already felt — slept fine, low resting heart rate, nothing to report. Other mornings the number disagrees with me flat out, and my first instinct isn'
Apple & Technology
Oct. 2/26 I've been writing in iA Writer this week, which for me counts as a small rebellion. Ulysses is home — sync across the Mac Studio, the MacBook Pro, the iPad, all of it stitched together with Universal Control so I can start a sentence on one
Food & Diet
You don't trust a season, you trust a run of them. That's not something a study taught me — it's just how farming teaches you to read anything, because a single season lies about as often as it tells the truth. A wet year looks
Food & Diet
I spent a lot of summers learning that the feeling telling you something's wrong is usually the last one to show up, not the first. By the time you notice, whatever's actually happening has been happening for a while. This week's reading kept handing
Apple & Technology
Sept. 18/26 For years I had a folder called Downloads that behaved the way you'd expect. Invoices, screenshots, PDFs from three different banks, receipts I meant to file and never did. Once a month or so I'd sit down and drag things into place by
Food & Diet
There's a pattern I ran into three times this week, in three rooms that don't usually talk to each other: something that used to happen on its own has quietly stopped happening on its own, and getting it back means doing it on purpose now. I