Writing?

It is another cool, windy, rainy spring morning in New England. There have been a few warm days, but by and large it's been a very cool spring. We still run the heater periodically. Not something really to complain about, as later in the summer we'll be able to look back fondly on these cool days. It is past peak spring. The early spring flowers have lost their petals. Even the dandelions are bare stocks. The grass is growing seemingly at light speed. The trees have leafed out and are starting to take on that uniform green so common here.

This journal entry is an experiment. I'm using an app called Wispr Flow to write this entry, although I'm not sure that the verb "write" is the correct term. Wispr Flow is a voice-to-text app, and I'm hoping that it will help me write more and more often.

I struggle to write. I struggled as a child with reading and writing. I was diagnosed with dyslexia, but I was also an indifferent student — I was much more interested in being outdoors playing sports — and I was just plain lazy. I missed or paid little attention to many of the early lessons, including spelling, punctuation and composition. It was not until my early adolescence that I really discovered reading. My father was an Anglophile, as was his father, so much of the reading material in our home reflected their passion for all things English. It was the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and P.G. Wodehouse that sparked my passion for reading. Those readings have had a lasting effect on my writing style —in an attempt to achieve elegance, I slide into verbosity.

If you are new to my website or have not visited the site recently, I hope you will take a moment or two to look around — I have spent the last several weeks updating the look and content of the site. Previously, my focus had been on simplicity. In contrast to my writing style, my design intent was focused on a spare, simple elegance — no frills. The new look is not a radical change, but an evolution. I hope you find it interesting and easy to navigate around.

As I wrote earlier, I am hoping to write journal posts more often — shorter posts, more focused posts. Some of the topics running around in my monkey-mind:

• Early adopter vs. Luddite (My Robot Assistant in Claude)
• Using my iPhone as my primary camera, or maybe my only camera
• Polaroid lifts – the trials and tribulations, and ultimate joy of the process
• Establishing a daily habit of making an image, with the intention of a 365 project for 2027
• My upcoming trip to India (Jan/Feb 2027)
• My ongoing issues with my lower back and the cost of being careless, and hubris.

P.S. WisprFlow certainly helps write more words quickly, but the same level of editing is required.