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Work continues on the new house. Hopefully, we'll be pouring concrete on Monday. The weather has been fantastic and they're making good progress. This level is more demanding than the basement because there are more window bucks and they...
I am famous for saying how today is just another day above the dirt. And it is. And that’s all this is for most of us. Today is just another day above the dirt.This is always so for those of us who are alive and breathing and living to...
hey everybody, autumn is here! i think? it kind of snuck up on me. we've gone straight from Heatwave to a 12C minimum and 22C maximum temperature, cool and rainy. it's been a couple of such days already and it doesn't seem like much will...
What have you recently finished reading? The last book I finished was Shen Tao’s The Poet Empress, which worked a lot better for me than I’d expected. I’d been a little put off by people talking about how dark it is, and it is… and I was...
Cool and clear. Sunlight pours through a hole in the forest canopy into the crown of a black walnut tree, erasing the difference between green and yellow leaves. A mourning dove calls from the woods’ edge—not the full song, just a kind...
Here is Nicholas Charriere's absolutely great short essay on fatherhood and professional ambition. I'm posting about this almost entirely because I simply like the essay (and that's a sufficient reason to post about something)....
It is my birthday today so I am issuing a blog challenge. That is something you are allowed to do on your birthday. My challenge is to write a blog post about an obscure game, whether it’s a video game, board game, tabletop rpg, LARP,...
This summer I had a new garden office installed so I could get my home office out of the house, improve my wife's mood and allow me some peace during the school holidays. Researching it I expected that extremes of temperature might...
That today is Wednesday is fake news. Clearly it is the second coming of Monday and my seminal sensibilities are offended.
Hello my dear friends. I trust you are well. There are two important updates and one not so important that I wish to share regarding my blog:MereCivilian Paid members have their own private RSS feed which will show full content even for...
I began my survey of Adam Smith’s 1784 pamphlet, Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam Smith’s Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, way back on 25 June 2026 (see here). Since then,...
I was going to write a post on terrible people and things. It seems like they are everywhere in the news and social media, from the obnoxious Karoline Leavitt to the white supremacist, Richard Hanania Not to mention Elon Musk, Mark...
You know that moment, your feet are in the water, it’s cold and you know jumping in will be uncomfortable. The waves start to splash higher to higher, each hit a reminder of how cold the water is. All you have to do is jump in. A moment...
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest...
At first trying to be the mother that her daughter wanted made her cranky, but this was just because she’d forgotten how to make someone else’s desires her own. Soon she remembered the liquid gold feeling of caring for another. This act...