The one thing we can’t easily re-capture is the smell of a space or a moment. This morning as I was doing dishes, I thought (for just the briefest of moments) that I could smell the rich aroma of fresh char cooking on a stove, and I was instantly pulled back to happy memories with… Read More
love and space
It seems like a lifetime ago that I met significant people in my life in buildings no longer standing. It’s a common theme in literature, in storytelling, in day-to-day life to talk about the importance of particular buildings or places to our own life narratives. The Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge,… Read More
An old post (circa 2010)
I wrote this in February 2010, on an old (now defunct) blog. I thought I would return to it as I sit over here in Scotland, missing home. I could tell you about a million things I don’t like about my old writing style, but instead I’ll share it unedited, to mark the passage of… Read More
Take the First Right Outside of Town: Rural Wayfinding
Although the roads are laid out along a grid system where I grew up, I never used addresses or range road numbers or anything like that to find my way around or give directions. In fact, until recently, roads were not marked with their numbers, and houses didn’t have addresses. Well, they did, but I… Read More
home
It’s hard to capture what it is that makes Canada home. There are so many equivalent and similar landscapes that skirt the northern latitudes of the planet. Sometimes when I squint I can mistake a Scottish river for a prairie one, or pretend the North Sea is the Arctic Ocean. But there is something, perhaps… Read More
Sights and Sounds of Scotland
Sound clips from my rambles through Scotland: Birds in East Lothian Seagulls Bells
