Northern Lights in UP, May '26
Captured on May 13, 2026.
Topic
Personal
A collection of 11 issues
Markdown with Tables in Ghost Articles
Ghost renders Markdown beautifully out of the box — until you paste a table. Depending on your theme, tables can wrap letter-by-letter, blow out the content column with horizontal scroll, or refuse to wrap long cells at all. The root cause is the theme's CSS: default Ghost
Northern Lights in the UP, Sep '25
Photos were taken from a pretty old iPhone so the quality isn't great but the experience and seeing it in person is magical.
Freshwater Jellyfish in Michigan
On a quick visit to a local lake, we found this little guy powering himself under a dock and onwards. I was shocked because I've spent a lot of time in and around freshwater rivers, lakes, and streams in North America and I've never seen one
Lyme Timber Company - What They Really Do
In 2019, the Lyme Timber Company purchased 675,000 acres in the Upper Peninsula (Michigan) and northern Wisconsin. That amounts to approximately 6.4% of the total acreage in the UP.
Their website and publications make ample use of words like “sustainability,” “conservation,” “sustainable forestry” “carbon sequestration,” and “renewable resources,
Things You Should Know About Texas (Before Moving Here)
Things You Should Know About Texas (Before Moving Here)
My purpose in writing this isn’t to hate on Texas. It has a lot of great attributes. But, like any place, it has its peculiarities, some of which are extreme. My intent is to highlight a few of those things
What Type of Door Knob Should I Use?
What Type of Door Knob Should I Use?
This is something that’s really easy to get right but for some reason it’s usually done wrong. Every apartment and house that I’ve ever lived in had the wrong type of door knobs throughout the interior of the house.
A Pretty Good Interior Painting Process
A Pretty Good Interior Painting Process
Every few years I find myself remodeling the interior of a new dump that we’ve just moved into. And, just enough time passes between remodels that I have to think through and carefully plan the paint job before I begin. Given that I’
Backyard Chickens — Reality Check
Last month my wife and I re-homed our hens after raising them from tiny chicks and caring for them for more than two years. Watching them leave, and knowing that we had failed them was devastating. I’m writing this with the hope that I prevent someone else from
Thoughts On “Psych lessons from one of Yale’s most popular classes”
I was on the road today and was, of course, listening to NPR in order to pass the time. Their Think show was on at the time and the host was interviewing Paul Bloom, a psychology professor at U. Toronto as well as a professor emeritus at Yale. He’s