• Good news

    The year is going fantastic so far. My arm is healing excruciatingly slowly and plans keep getting cancelled, but whatever. Suddenly I have a new job! I will essentially be overseeing the production of audiobooks, in the capacity of someone who knows science. State-produced media for the hard-of-sight and dyslexic.…

  • 2021

    Time to sum up the year, I suppose. I’ll be ending it on a pitiful note: sick with Covid-19 and with my broken arm not yet healed. Thankfully, though, I am fully vaccinated and the symtoms so far are not worse than a bad cold. And I’m living in a…

  • Like a van in the dark

    That challenge worked out pretty well. I didn’t complete the entire thing, but it definitely got a creative spark going, which was the intent after all. I had fun and learned things about endangered animals, at least. But then life happened. Hit me like a van in the dark. Literally,…

  • Undying Tales part 20: Horseshoe Crab

      “What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.” — Ursula K. LeGuin (Dragonfly) Isn’t it marvellous that a life-form  unchanged for millions of years appearing alien  not because of new and freakish features but because it conservatorially remained in its shape while the rest of the planet moved beyond copper-tinged…

  • Undying Tales part 18: Elkhorn Coral

      Rainforest of the sea home of millions surface like stone, yet alive immensely old, yet fragile growing slowly over thousands of years hosting entire eco-systems turning white over a few days calcifying, petrifying dying from heat and acidity the ocean floor is turning into a graveyard Love and devastation,…

  • Undying Tales part 14: Kelp Forest

      Poseidon’s hunting grounds a forest beneath the surface of the raging ocean raging with good reason warming, acidifying the forests are dying not burning, yet wilting in the heat a home is dying an entire world swimming, eating, hiding LIVING entangled so below, so above entangled with us right…