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Things I wrote

  • Ghosts

    If you want a fun afternoon read, pick up <em>Ghosts</em> and think about life and death from a lovely perspective.

  • The Mushroom at the End of the World

    There are certain people in my life that when they recommend a book, I usually just trust them and go for it and start reading it. <em>The Mushroom at the End of the World</em> by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is one such book for me.

  • A quiet life in the fog

    He writes there sporadically, but it's always welcome when it hits my feed. And on Monday a post hit my feed and I read it and it's stuck with me since.

  • The Guineveres

    <em>The Guinevers</em> by Sarah Domet was on some end of 2016 book list and I decided to give it a go, not totally knowing what I was in for when I started reading.

  • Resting to be productive

    But in the last several years it's been one thing, more than any other, that has increased my productivity and helped me get shit done. Rest.

  • Front End Style Guides

    Anna Debenham started the new year off by releasing an updated version of her book, <em>Front End Style Guides</em> and I spent some time reading it and highlighting and remembering what it is I love about style guides this week.

  • Passion

    Passion isn't the right word to describe any of this, instead we should find other words to talk about our work.

  • Daily drawing 2017

    I'm doing Jennifer Lewis Orkin's <em>Draw Every Day, Draw Every Way</em> throughout all of 2017.

  • A difficult week

    This week has felt like a hammer hitting me over the head over and over again

  • Swing Time

    <em>Swing Time</em> by Zadie Smith is on almost every single best of 2016 book list I've seen. And I've been gravitating to reading fiction post US election, needing some escape that also may prompt me to think. <em>Swing Time</em> did just that.

  • Hacktivist

    <em>Hacktivist</em> appeared on a list somewhere and I decided to give it a try. I read it through my library and while I'm glad I read it and I liked it enough to keep going to the next volume, I'm not sure I loved it.

  • Resilient Web Design

    Jeremy Keith's talks are some of my favorite I've seen over the course of my career when I've been lucky enough to be at a conference where he's speaking. He's taken a lot of the elements of those talks and put them into a wonderful online book, <em>Resilient Web Design</em>.

  • Implied shoulds

    Doing what's right for you is never the wrong thing to do.

  • The final Earthsea books

    Finishing a series is always bittersweet for me, especially a series that I've loved. On Christmas I finished the final book of the Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin, and it was one of those series where I was wanting to keep reading more about the characters I've come to love.

  • Taking a break

    Breaks are a very good thing