Category: cast iron guy

  • Kinda Secret Projects

    I haven’t been entirely forthcoming with my friends and family. In fact, there are very few people who I know in real life who also know that I write in this blog. Maybe… say… five people. I have no real good reason for not self-promoting other than that I wasn’t ready yet. Creativity and personal

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  • Sylvan

    This language of mine is so filled with clever words meant to precisely describe many things. Other words have meanings that are soft, fluid and flexible that they are used to describe concepts so vast as to make the boundaries of those definitions fuzzy and flexible. To me, sylvan feels like on of those words.

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  • Moraine Lake Canoes in Pieces

    In the summer of 2018 we spent a week backpacking in the Rocky Mountains near Lake Louise, Alberta, conquering a trail known as the route to Skoki Lodge. We roughed it, camping out of whatever we lugged on our backs up the nearly-twenty kilometer hike. Dehydrated food, lightweight gear, water filtered from a mountain stream,

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  • Tech Help: Fixing a Photographer’s Nightmare

    I turned on my computer this meta Monday morning and was greeted with the following message in the black and white boot screen: WARNING: Please back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent and cause unpredictable fail. It seems that my life never fails to present me with timely

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  • Should you take walk breaks while running?

    Back in 2012 I ran my first travel-based half marathon. My wife and I had hopped on a plane and spent a long weekend in Las Vegas where the race had shut down the strip and some tens of thousands of runners ran through the Nevada evening basked in glow of more neon than I’d

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