Now

Building

Working on this website — learning what it means to have a place of my own on the internet at fifty-five. Continuing to experiment with vibe coding: turning ideas into working tools without writing a line of code myself.

Reading

Currently rereading passages from Wang Zengqi. There is a patience in his prose I am trying to understand — the way he writes about ordinary life without condescension or nostalgia.

Thinking about

What it means to be a witness rather than an expert. How the value of lived experience compounds quietly over decades, and only becomes visible in retrospect.

Life

Spring in Surrey. The garden is doing something. The twins have started asking questions that take longer to answer than I expect.