Grad School

I have a new video at YouTube & some thoughts about what I'm doing on YouTube

March 20, 2025

Now that my Master’s degree is nearly completed I’m returning to YouTube with a renewed focus on creating lifestyle content videos that integrate my daily life, projects, and adventures. With the goal that this will be of interest to other people also and maybe I'll be able to monetize my channel.

Thoughts on seasonal living in the season of the empty nest

March 11, 2025

As I step into the empty nest season of life, I find myself leaning more deeply into the rhythms of nature, my own body, and the cycles that shape human experience and existence. In this essay, I share reflections on seasonal living—what it means, why it matters, and how this stage of life has granted me the freedom to align more closely with the natural world.

The power goes out and the writing goes on

December 9, 2024

Writing papers on weekends is not how I want to live my life at 49 years old, but this too shall pass.

Friday night Christmas market in Mahone Bay

December 7, 2024

I invited Mom for a Friday night date to Mahone Bay and we visited all the “where things were happening” as listed on the pamphlet. Our favorite of these was the market at St James Anglican Church Parish Hall.

These December Days

December 4, 2024

One of the things I wanted to do when I moved to Nova Scotia was to return, in some way, to telling the story of my life on my blog. To steer my writing more memoirist and less analytical

How to live after having eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

December 12, 2023

This essay explores my personal mental and emotional overwhelm due to the intake and processing of information and knowledge and the ongoing disruptions and changes to our society and culture. Ultimately, I’m seeking to discover how I’m supposed to live open-hearted and open-minded while being committed to intellectual expansion. The ache, the grief, the worry, the fear, and the disorientation that comes with knowledge and change are hard to manage and/or release.