Keepers

2023

• Never have I ever 19 December

• Making Weight 28 November

• Resolutions 7 November

• Costings 4 November

• An unspeakable secret 22 October

• An Unreachable Dream 24 August

• Reconcilable differences 22 August

• The Bear 4 August

• This is your central task 4 July

• The wisdom to know the difference 17 May

• Stay with Me 27 February

2022

• Lucky You 13 December

• The practice of the presence of God 7 November

• You could forgive me 13 October

• Sentience 9 August

• What’s love got to do with it 16 April

• Like little pieces of the sky 17 February

• Something in the way 7 February

• The dark don’t hide it 21 January

2021

• Slowly at first, if you can 25 November

• It cannot always be night 13 October

• The production of memory 18 August

• Kiss, Marry, Kill 14 May

• Lest you be judged 13 May

• Every lie you tell and are told 15 April

• Thankfully, for my sanity 30 January

2020

• Eating Dread 26 November

• Where do we go when we fall asleep 22 November

• I know I said the end was near 18 September

• Civil Twilight 6 September

• How it decomposes 17 July

• So that grace might increase 14 June

• Growth mindset 30 April

• Sickness and Health 2 April

• Before everything 30 March

• In these final hours 9 March

• A Fundamental Unhappiness 10 February

2019

• Cut your losses 12 December

• Sifting 24 October

• Misanthropy 23 August

• When to say goodbye 10 July

• Running Fast 17 April

• I love you, stay with me 17 January

2018

• Evidence 15 December

• Rigor Mortis 24 October

• The roads away 5 September

• The Great Dialectic 21 August

• A More Suitable Metric 18 July

• The Heat 9 June

• Arriving 8 May

• Archaeology of Self 1 May

• Pasta for Love 2 April

• The Birth of the Asylum 28 January

• On Violence 2 January

2017

• The Signal and the Noise 19 December

• Levels of abstraction 23 November

• It's the end of the world 22 September

• Ready to Die 7 September

• Insurance 26 August

• The itch 14 August

• Making weight 8 August

• The house on Victoria Road 23 June

• I'm hardcore, but I'm not that hardcore 7 June

• Spirit of my silence, I can hear you 20 May

• A fever dream 28 February

• Fantasy 13 February

• Silence 12 February

2016

• Reliving 29 December

• The End of the World 29 August

• What to expect when you're expecting 1 August

• Touches 23 April

• Forgiveness 14 March

• Seven Love Letters 4 January

• A number 3 January

2015

• Seven Boxes 30 December

• Kissing the Relics 7 November

• Bikes 8 September

• British Pessimism 22 August

• Dusk as a Cambridge author 15 August

• Love over time 8 July

• Teleology 13 May

• The Second Circle of Hell 6 May

• Seven Love Letters 1 March

• Is the sunlight 23 February

• Leaving 23 February

• New soles and founding myths 3 January

2014

• 1910 cold & a top that won't wobble 20 December

• Disconnections 21 November

• October Vignettes, Day 21 21 October

• The things we carry 27 September

• Re-reading the past 5 July

• A Quaker faith 14 May

• The momentum of settling 1 May

• Fires 14 April

• Bells 23 March

• Recovery 17 March

• Drawing on top of a drawing 14 January

• The beginning 2 January

2013

• The ending 31 December

• Slowly and then suddenly 13 December

• Succeeding in failing 26 November

• Let's be generous with our claps 14 October

• Trees 29 August

• Falling 13 August

• Visions and barking 29 July

• Ramadan 15 July

• The pursuit of happiness 10 June

• Success 3 May

• Threading the needle 2 April

• Oh Death 25 March

• My motorbike as a metaphor for white privilege, or how to avoid jail in Southeast Asia 6 February

• Blessings and Curses 2 January

2012

• Emotional Whiplash 25 December

• As it happened 18 December

• The suspension of time 14 December

• Yes, I'm here 3 December

• Assistant Professor of Language and Literature 12 October

• On the Road 4 October

• Submitted 30 September

• Beginning to say goodbye 23 August

• Stalled when you can't stall 20 August

• Before turning thirty 22 June

• Hope can be a verb 17 May

• Throwing out 9 May

• The marathon two 1 May

• Gaining–Losing 18 April

• Do you speak Japanese? 23 March

• Weekend of Body/Soul 5 March

• The Weeknd and the Rosary 15 February

• Comfort Food 12 February

• Nothing in 4 January

2011

• Christmas 26 December

• The analytic apparatus 5 December

• Deutschland for Empathy, Day 4 23 November

• Welcome home 2 November

• When you are alone 11 September

• God's deterministic plan for your life 28 June

• Mia comes in 30 minutes or your money back 26 June

• Stability in the system 10 June

• The Œuvre of Walker Evans 20 May

• Death is Dead: Resurgam 25 April

• Istanbul: Wrap-up 31 March

• How 20,000 tragedies are single tragedies 20,000 times over 22 March

• Praying for Japan 14 March

• A Reprieve 17 January

2010

• Paused 16 November

• What love's got to do with it 29 October

• Tanger 21 October

• Japanese Festival, Chipotle 18 September

• Making weight 5 September 

• The affordance of evil 1 August

• Coasting 24 June

• Internet people become real 31 May

• The loneliness of a long distance runner 17 April

• Screaming kids, wife of steel 14 April

• More on home 18 February

• Experiences of the sublime 4 February

• January blues 2 February

• Is it Friday? 15 January 

• A heavy rain is going to fall 4 January

2009

• 2009 Retrospective 31 December

• Take me out to the ballgame 18 November

• Back in black, baby 23 October

• On the UK like butter on toast 15 September

• Getting back on the horse 7 July

• June 2nd Coup 2 June

• Mei's birth 13 May

• Many are disappointed 5 April

• The tipping point 25 March

• Six months 17 March

• Spring is here? Spring is here. 16 February

2008

• London 7 December

• Self-organisation 21 November

• Supervision 15 October

• Come on 9 October

• The Trip Over 30 September

• I regret to inform you/ I am pleased to inform you... 22 May

• Life and Times 4 April

• Laotian in Motion, Day 5 23 March

• Laotian in Motion, Day 2: Waiting for dinner 20 March

• New Apartment 8 March

• English Teaching Post 28 February

• Bi-monthly Japanese complaint post 5 February

2007

• The Waiting is over 20 December

• Trip to Mito, Day 2 11 November

• Fukushima in Two Days 18 October

• Look, it's all about sex 3 October

• Life in the big city 25 September

• Viva la revolution! Day 7 26 August

• An atomic truth 12 August

• Blogging the future 5 June

• Baby Arrives! 15 May

• What three years does 26 April

• Doing Time 24 February

• Joy 6 January

2006

• Meta-Blogging 1 December

• Nattering 13 November

• My heart will go on 6 November

• Baby! 21 October

• Shakes like a toothache 29 September

• More, more, and more 10 September

• Wedding 21 July

• Cycling 19 April

• Yoko curses 27 February

• Ruminations on love 12 February

• Engaged 24 January

2005

• Love and shoe-gazing 13 December

• Thai Enlightenment Tour, Day 2 17 October

• Coupled 19 September

• On atonement 26 July

• 10 things in Japan today 29 June

• And queer not meaning gay 16 February

• Back in Niigata 19 January

2004

• In English? I asked. 25 November

• Matsuhama 10 October

• Forgetting important things 27 September

• Big plans 11 August

• Summer Camp 25 July

• Jesus Freak 22 May

• An octopus escaping, an elaborate, surreal opera 12 May

• Honored foreigners 25 April

• Cherry blossoms 31 March

• Things I do in a day 26 March

• Sama? Kama? What now? 5 January

2003

• Hit by a car 21 December

• Santa san 17 December

• Moving 17 October

• The Art Institute of Chicago before moving 3 October

• Boxers 17 September

• Bamer and Hum 18 August