It happened on a Sunday morning. I was looking at my sleep score on the Samsung, a seventy-four, moderate, three interruptions, and I looked over at Biscuit on the couch and thought: I wonder how she slept. This is not… Read more: I’m tracking my health on my wrist and now I’m wondering if I should be tracking the dogs too

I did not grow up with dogs. My family had a dog for a few years when I was in grade school, a terrier mix named something I cannot remember now, who lived mostly outside and who I did not… Read more: What I know about dogs now that I didn’t know when I got them

August 14th, a Thursday, Pirates versus the Red Sox. First game of a three-game series. I went. Here’s my full report. Getting there I drove, because I always drive, because I’m not taking public transit to a baseball game in… Read more: I went to PNC Park for the Red Sox series and here’s what happened to my back

I went by myself, which I want to say upfront before it starts sounding like a sad detail. It is not a sad detail. It is just a fact about how I spent the evening of July 4th, 2026, which… Read more: I watched the Fourth of July fireworks at the Point

After Biscuit I felt like I had a reasonable handle on how to train a dog. Three years of work, a couple of obedience classes, a lot of repetition and patience and positive reinforcement — I knew the method, I’d… Read more: I tried to train Rusty with the same approach I used on Biscuit and we were both wrong

Day one on DateFiore, I set up my profile, browsed for about an hour, and sent two messages. Not long, not elaborate — just something specific to each user, a question or a comment that gave the other person something… Read more: DateFiore: I almost quit on day four, and I’m glad I didn’t

Alright, so this is my Datewyn review, and I’ll get to the point: I was wrong about what to expect, which doesn’t happen as often as I’d like. I’ve been on enough of these platforms to develop a kind of… Read more: Datewyn members surprised me and I mean that in a good way

There is a version of getting a puppy that I had in my head before I actually did it, and then there is the reality of it, and those two things did not overlap as much as I expected. I… Read more: Biscuit took three years to calm down and I aged about ten

So. Quick Heartimo review up front: the login took me ten minutes and that was entirely my fault. The platform itself was fine. Here’s the full story. There was a conversation that had been going well for a couple of… Read more: Heartimo login took me ten minutes and that is on me

My father left me a Hamilton. A pocket watch, made in the 1940s, gold-filled case, manual wind. He had gotten it from his own father, who had gotten it from somewhere I do not know. By the time it came… Read more: Twenty-three watches and maybe four of them are worth anything, here’s how that happened