What's currently
on the desk.
A monthly snapshot: books open, songs on repeat, drafts not yet ready. Less than a journal entry, more than a tweet. Updated when it stops being honest.
18 May 2026
Home Office
Late June
Reading
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Living Loving and Learning
Re-read · 5th
I have been losing it too, and I buy it every other year at least. Fifth time through and it still finds something new to say to me.
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002
The Signalman
In progress
A long bath of a book. Riding the Tube in London has never been the same. Although it's not the same line.
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003
Never Flinch
By the bed
Holly is one of my favorite Stephen King characters. This is a book I want to not finish right away, but I keep reading extra pages.
Listening
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001
Didn't it Rain
Album · driving
My default music to and from work. Tapping and humming at red lights. Belting out at green.
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002
Concierto de Aranjuez · Adagio
Single track
A piece I have used, for ten years, as the volume-adjuster for any room that has too many sentences in it. Still works.
- 003 The Daily Stoic Habit · ish
On the desk
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001
Iris, a Synesthesia Story
In progress
Fourth chapter done, fifth scribbled and closed. Waiting for the next violet to come. Sometimes they arrive in waves. Sometimes just silence.
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002
A small redesign of both notebooks
In progress
The thing you are reading is part of that. Two front doors, one author. The desk feels lighter for it.
On the road
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001
Alaska, cruise, June 1
Booked · 1 Jun
The kind of trip where the landscape does all the talking. I am bringing a good coat and very few expectations.
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002
Dutch Grand Prix, Zandvoort, August
Booked · Aug
First time at Zandvoort. A seaside circuit with banked corners and sand dunes. I have been told to expect wind, noise, and orange. I am ready for all three.
- 003 A week in Costa Rica, October Considering
This page is a promise to be honest in May about what I'll actually do in June. The honesty rate hovers, historically, around 62%.