by Don Freeman | Oct 26, 2023 | Blog
WARNING: Risk of pre-season traumatic trembling. Recently, I’ve seen Christmas-themed advertising, complete with smiling faces and bow-wrapped parcels. For many, if not most, it’s too early to think about such things, with all that that entails. But there it is. Maybe...
by Don Freeman | Jan 5, 2023 | Blog
In the northern climes of Scandinavia, it’s normal to have barely any winter sun rising above the horizon during the day, and barely any sun setting below the horizon all summer. In a desert climate, it’s normal to have extreme temperature swings from day to night. In...
by Don Freeman | Dec 31, 2022 | Blog
As we glide into port on this ultimate day of 2022, it is quite possible that our souls, like the hulls of ships, have gotten heavily barnacled, and need to be freed up. A quick dip into this topic explains that these tiny crustaceans attach themselves by secreting a...
by Don Freeman | Dec 29, 2022 | Blog
You’re sleeping soundly as the now-completed sequence of thought bubble floats upward toward the ceiling as the next thought bubble descends to take its place in your brain (I think that’s how it happens, but please don’t quote me). If you’re more drawn to savory,...
by Don Freeman | Dec 27, 2022 | Blog
Having consulted with those in the know (the newspaper comic strips), Christmas is relegated to a single day, if not just a couple hours in the early morning of the 25th of December. Comments like: ‘Christmas 2022 is done.’ ‘Glad Christmas is over.’ ‘Christmas was...
