A glass of wine. I have been sipping at a bottle for the last week or so, and it has been quite enjoyable. However, even though it is a decent shiraz from Australia, it isn't as good as it could be, because

I am closing in on 50. A few more years and I will be at half a century old. What this means is I have seen a few changes in culture over the years and my childhood environment was quite different to that

Sometimes good news just pops up. Nothing that helps me at all, but someone I know is now expecting and I am just so happy for them and look forward to being even a tiny part in the life of their child.

When it is my shift (we take it in turns) to put Smallsteps to bed, I read her books. We have read many, several series, and across various genres, and now we are reading the last we have in the shelf

Hope. We do a lot of hoping, don't we? We hope the best for them and us, we hope things will turn out alright, we hope that this will be good, or that won't happen. We hope a lot, but I wonder how much

For the couple months, I have been sitting at the kitchen table when I am at the laptop. Not sure why, but it has been better than on the couch upstairs, as I found myself too distracted there. Tonight

Pipped at the post. I don't know the last time I finished in the top 25 of the Modern Leaderboard, but with less than ten minutes to go before the end of season when maintenance also kicked in, I saw I

Wouldn't it be nice to always live on the other side? Or perhaps I am living on the other side and what I am seeing over the fence is where I belong. You might have to do some thinking to work that one

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

Back in the day, there was an unwritten contract that helped push us forward. To keep it brief, essentially governments took over basic education so that people were easier to employ, and then the companies

Halfway through my workout tonight, the mother of one of Smallsteps' friend's whom we had dinner with a couple weeks ago, came up to me and started talking. We talked for about half an hour, which ruined

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

It is that time of year again, the weekend before Easter. That means that we have decorated some pussy willow twigs with ribbons and feathers, and Smallsteps will knock on the doors of family to beg for

I have been crying all day. Not just crying, weeping. Because while it has been raining on and off yesterday, the air is full of all the dust that was trapped in the snow during the winter and is now being

I went into the city to have lunch with ex-colleagues today, and of course most of the time was spent talking about the place we all worked at, even though two out of the four no longer work there. The

Destination Inevitable One step first, then one more, One leads to another and habit is formed. Run to the next and run away from the last, The desire to be anywhere else but here. And through the years

For years I have been in the camp that automation is going to decimate our species in ways we can't even imagine. This is well before Gen-AI entered into the conversation and I could go back to conversations

We are the most American. I remember when I first came to Finland as a business English trainer, it was common to hear my clients say "Finland is the most American country in Europe" or similar.

I forgot my ear buds. I normally carry a spare wired set in my laptop bag, but apparently I removed them when cleaning it out and forgot to put them in. That means that a couple hours on the train each

All the sugar, none of the sweetness. When Smallsteps went to the movies the other day, she and her friend each chose some candy to take in with them. Smallsteps had gone a step ahead when the friend's