Apple Fritters

I don’t know that I’ve ever had apple fritters before, but the idea has always sounded great to me. So I decided to make some. There are hundreds of recipes out on the web and they’re all very different from each other in terms of proportions. I settled on a bit of a hybrid from…

Remote Work

With SARS-CoV-2 spreading across the world, and the dramatic and sudden impacts it’s having on our everyday lives, I’ve been thinking quite a lot about the nature of remote work. I’ve been working remotely (notice I don’t say “from home” here) for over 20 years. Between 1999 and 2004, I worked remotely for at least…

Violin

So, I made a violin. This was a really long process, starting around 2003. I don’t know quite why I decided to do this, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. I started by getting the book Violin Making, Step-by-step by Henry Strobel. I’d read that it was a good introduction to…