September 13, 2026
A mountain chalet in the Bavarian alps

Articles

A Hundred Years of Shared Stewardship

We’ve spent the week up Brauneck – one of the mountains close to Munich. We come for a week most summers and spend the time in a Hütte (mountain cabin/chalet) that we can use via a hiking Verein (club) we belong to. Ever…

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September 11, 2026

Music

Diane

The Strumbellas

September 6, 2026
A flyby of an aeroplane over an airfield.

Articles

Königsdorf Airshow

This was our second visit to the Flugplatzfest Königsdorf – held at the end of summer at a glider airfield near the alps. It’s a fairly small airfield and so the sheer number of aircraft on display and in the air at any…

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September 5, 2026
A view from the Austrian side of the Zugspitze summit looking at the mountains and visitors platform on the German side.

Photos

Zugspitze: The view from the Austrian side of the summit.

August 27, 2026

Articles

Review: Kobo Clara BW

I’ve been using a Kindle ever since the original Paperwhite came out in 2012. The combination of easy access to English books in Germany and being able to read at night without a light on made it a super compelling produ…

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August 27, 2026

Photos

Brauneck

August 25, 2026

Books

Martin Luther

Eric Metaxas

★★★☆☆

August 25, 2026

Music

When The Avalanche Comes (feat. Jack Johnson & Zach Gill)

Matt Costa

August 23, 2026

Music

This Is the Song (Good Luck)

Punch Brothers

August 23, 2026

Quotes

“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”

Carl Jung
August 22, 2026

Music

The Pain

Another Sky

August 21, 2026

Music

El Coconito

Natalia Lafourcade & El David Aguilar

August 20, 2026

Quotes

“Think about why you are party-avoidant, though. Do you really just not want to go? In which case: OK. Or are you just a bit scared? In which case: this is a bad excuse because everyone is a bit scared of everything, if we’re honest, and part of being an adult is about keeping others company while we all freak out about how stressful life is.”

Unknown
August 20, 2026

Books

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

William Finnegan

★★★★☆

August 20, 2026

Music

St. Brendan's Isle

Jake Xerxes Fussell

August 20, 2026

Photos

Merano

September 14, 2025

Articles

New parents tip: Share a note for special memories

Over dinner we were reminiscing about something one of our kids used to do as a toddler. When the kids were born, I created a Notes.app entry for each of them and shared it with my wife. Over the years both notes have gr…

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September 14, 2025

Articles

macos & iOS 26 on ReleaseDates.dev

Life, a new role and other commitments meant releasedates.dev has been on the backburner for a bit, but finally got around to adding this year's releases. https://releasedates.dev

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July 20, 2025

Articles

OP-1 Field: A Guitarist’s Review

Let me preface this review by getting the following out of the way: Yes, I could do all the things I’ll talk about on a laptop, tablet, or even a phone. Even on sale, it’s pricey. I could have bought a MIDI keyboard, aud…

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