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Nov 9, 2026 · 4 min read
The hour the light gives up
At three in the afternoon the one street lamp comes on, and the whole town gets quieter.
Nov 2, 2026 · 5 min read
Why I heat the sauna on a Wednesday
A weekly habit, a bucket and a ladle, and what an hour of heat does for a long week.
Oct 26, 2026 · 4 min read
A candle in the window
Why I light one every afternoon, and what it says to anyone walking past.
Oct 19, 2026 · 5 min read
Cutting wood is not a metaphor
Stacked logs, a dull axe and the plain satisfaction of a job you can finish.
Oct 12, 2026 · 6 min read
The hole in the ice, and the ladder
How a swim in black water became the best five minutes of my week.
Oct 5, 2026 · 4 min read
What the sky does at ten at night
Green light over a barn, and why I stopped taking photographs of it.
Sep 21, 2026 · 5 min read
Writing the column in wool socks
My desk, my chair and the blanket that has seen four hundred columns.
Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read
The quiet of a road with one lamp
A bicycle in the dusk, and the kind of silence you can only get in snow.
Sep 7, 2026 · 4 min read
Coffee, and nothing else, at six
Why I keep the first hour of the day empty, even in the darkest week.
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The Long Dark
A short column every Monday morning on the dark, the sauna and the quiet habits of winter.