works of wanderlust

Category: cast iron guy

  • Caged Flame

    It was Saturday afternoon and for the first time in a week there was nary a spot of snow in my backyard. We had some pork loin marinating in the refrigerator and my wife was all “I was just going to cook it in the oven but if it’s nice enough out there you could

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  • A Gift of Bread

    Since the pandemic began I’ve been baking a lot of sourdough. In fact, on my way home over a year ago from my last day in the office and even as we transitioned into working-from-home mode, I stopped at the grocery store and restocked my flour supply. Then as I checked into my kitchen and

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  • Beaver Watchers

    We run hills on Wednesday evening, and in a prairie city full of creeks and a river valley, the only proper hills are where the roads and paths cross the water. It is not surprising then that our hill training brings us close up to nature, the bottom of our training hill being a bridge

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  • firewood

    the fate of a tree brings a curious twiststarting as seed on wind, through misttucked into the soilspattered with rainsprouting and growing new heights to attainshrugging snow, budding leafbasking summers often briefsunlit evenings casting long shadowsbrilliant colours before even more snowsyear after year, decades pass, seasons withdrawuntil fate arrives as a windor a flameor a

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  • A Blogging Good Anniversary

    I occasionally allude to an interesting-to-me fact: I’ve been posting my thoughts online in the form of blogs for a long time. To give that claim some context, as of today I have been a blogger for twenty years. That’s right. On April 20, 2001, twenty years ago to today, I posted my first dispatch

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