Earlier this week I started to feel something I haven’t felt in a while: I felt lost. I started to look ahead and feel disoriented. Where do I want to be in a few years? What do I want to work on? What is my dream? I have never looked too far ahead in time, as long as I have a little bit of direction. I like to...

Jo and I are trading blog post titles. The title Jo chose for me is “A perfect day.”What would my perfect day look like? Reflecting on this question, I started to think about the days that have brought me the most joy in the past. I realised that the days that stick out in my memory as being really good were all...

I am trading blog post titles with Joe. He gave me a few suggestions for what to write about. I chose the title “Scotland’s brightness levels”.Place is a recurring theme when I am writing. Where am I? What do I see? What I write about Nature is what I see here in Scotland. In the back of my mind, I occasionally...

I have been thinking about the rhythm of my writing recently. I wrote in my drafts:I have spent much of this evening writing. I started by working on a draft of a post about clouds that I wrote on my phone using Apple Notes while waiting for the bus. I then explored a few more ideas that were in my notes. This has...

I visit the IndieWeb wiki almost every day. The wiki is maintained by the IndieWeb community, documenting everything from interfaces for creating posts to POSSE.I was thinking that, like all wikis, there are pages that are almost “hidden gems” in the sense that, while they are on the web, they may not be the first...

Britt and I are trading blog post titles. The topic Britt chose for me is “A piece of art you would like to see in person”.One of the many joys of art galleries is that you never know what you might see. A few weeks ago, I was surprised and delighted to encounter the J.M.W. Turner exhibit at the National Gallery of...

I love winter mornings when the sky is clear. Looking out the window, the sky is a clear blue, interspersed with the occasional white cloud so faint that it is almost invisible. The snowy hills look like they are absorbing some of the blue, their hue a mixture of the snow and the sky. The low light casts far across...

I wondered if it would snow again this season. The weather has been persistently cloudy, but there has been little snow. Today, the weather changed. Just as I was about to go out for a walk, it started snowing heavily. It has been months since I have seen the snow like I did today: flowing down from the blank white...

I maintain a web page that lists notes from IndieWeb events. Entries are added to the page when notes from meet-ups are archived to the community wiki.This web page contains several h-feeds. h-feed is the microformats markup that says that the tagged area represents a feed. There is a h-feed for each of several...

Ava and I are trading blog post titles. The topic Ava chose for me to write about was “What I associate with my name”.When I was young, I remember distinctly looking through a kids’ encyclopaedia and finding “James” written in there a few times [1]. I don’t know why that memory is so vivid in my mind, but it is. I...

Zachary’s website introduced me to “Proust’s questionnaire”, a series of questions by Marcel Proust. I thought it would be fun to try and respond to them!I am writing this blog post as the snow falls outside. I wasn’t expecting snow today, but here it is. Some of the most wonderful things happen seemingly at...

Ruben, after responding to the sandwich questionnaire that Zachary blogged about, added a few more questions. When I saw the blog post, I thought: these questions are exactly what I need today. Below I have responded to the delightfully-named “second helping” questions that Ruben wrote.Do you remember the best...