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
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
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
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,
Food & Diet
Gardener of Life Tuesday 7/14/26 Nobody tells you when the switch happened. That's the thing about the changes that stick — you go looking for the moment, the decision point, the day you turned a corner, and there isn't one. There's just a
Food & Diet
There's a version of modern life where everything comes with a dashboard. Your olive oil has a harvest date and a polyphenol count. Your wrist tells you your HRV score and your sleep stages. Your browser tracks which tab you had open longest. I'm not sure
Food & Diet
There's a thing that happens every January in a farming operation. You sit down with last year's notes, a clean calendar, and whatever the almanac is saying about the coming season — knowing full well the almanac is mostly optimistic. You write out the plan anyway. Not
Health & Wellness
When the weight comes off fast, not all of it is fat. Some of it is muscle. That part doesn't always make the brochure. Muscle mass isn't just about how you look. It's how you get up from a chair at seventy-five. It&
Food & Diet
One thing doctors don't always mention upfront about GLP-1 medications — you can lose muscle along with the fat. When calories drop that low, the body doesn't always know what to spare. The weight comes off, and that part makes the brochure. What doesn't
Food & Diet
Most of us spent decades thinking about food the wrong way. We thought hunger was a character flaw. We thought people who ate too much just weren't trying hard enough. Willpower was the answer. Discipline was the answer. Another diet was the answer. The conversation around weight and