2020-04-15

Meet my blue dragon

I used a bunch of miniature blue Star Wars X-Wing fighter lego sets (and several additional pieces) to build a blue dragon using instructions for my son’s red dragon as a template. I am proud of this.

One year for his birthday, my son got a bunch of miniature blue Star Wars X-Wing fighter lego sets (I tried to find them online, but couldn’t.). Looking at them, all built up, it occurred to me that we could use them to build a blue dragon to fight (or befriend) the red dragon he built a few months earlier. [Read More…]

2020-04-14

A different whey to get your protein supplements

The harder you train - especially as you age - the harder it is to recover so you can keep going the next day. When I started training more regularly and more rigorously for my first obstacle course run I decided to go “hippie” and try all-natural, vegan, organic powders. Three years later, I’m still at it.

I decided to go “hippie” (for lack of a better word for the German “öko”… [Read More…]

2020-04-06

A broken dish, a little gold and a valuable lesson

The Japanese practice of Kintsugi entails repairing broken porcelain (or other materials, I suppose) dishes or cups etc. using gold. Why. [Read More…]