I was invited to play in a charity golf scramble a few years ago. I am, to be completely honest, terrible at golf. I think I spent more time looking for my ball in the woods than actually swinging the club. But the thing that always fascinates me about these events isn't the golf itself, […]
I was looking at the housing market around Cannon Falls recently, and honestly, it’s just… a lot to process. The median price right now is hovering somewhere around $440,000, maybe a bit higher. Which, I mean, is a fairly balanced market compared to the absolute chaos of a few years ago, but still. It's a […]
It is a strange quirk of human nature, I think, how we somehow become completely blind to the things we see every single day. I was walking down the side passage of my house a few weeks ago, or maybe it was last month—the weeks sort of blur together lately. Anyway, I was walking past […]
I was driving around the other day—well, mostly just sitting in traffic, if I'm being entirely honest—and I was just looking at the storefronts passing by. It’s actually sort of fascinating, I think, to consider how much the whole concept of a "smoke shop" has shifted over the last decade or so. The days of […]
It is actually kind of wild how much the whole concept of "wellness" has completely morphed over the last, I don't know, maybe five or six years? I remember when being health-conscious just meant trying to drink eight glasses of water a day and occasionally forcing yourself to eat a salad. Now, though… you look […]
I was looking at some photos the other day from when my first was just a few months old. It’s actually quite strange how your brain just completely edits out the sheer exhaustion of that period. I remember sitting on the living room rug, staring at this tiny human, and just feeling this overwhelming sense […]
There is this very specific, almost universal moment of dread that I think most of us have experienced at least once. I know I have. You walk into your kitchen late at night, maybe just to get a glass of water, and you flip the light switch… and you see it. A shadow darts under […]
Ik zat laatst te denken aan hoe ontzettend vermoeiend het eigenlijk is om een auto te verkopen. Tenminste, dat was mijn ervaring een paar jaar geleden. Of misschien is het al wat langer geleden, de tijd gaat soms zo merkwaardig snel. Je denkt van tevoren dat het een simpele kwestie is van een paar vlotte […]
I've been thinking a lot lately about how we interact with our digital canvases. It is strange, actually, how deeply attached you can get to a specific piece of hardware. When you spend hours every day staring at a screen, holding a plastic pen, the tool basically becomes an extension of your hand. So, when […]
I’ve been thinking lately about how… inherently stressful the whole concept of lending really is. You know? You need money for something important—buying a house, starting a company, maybe just surviving a sudden emergency—and suddenly you have to prove your entire worth to a stranger in a suit. Or, even worse these days, to a […]