fatherhood – Cast Iron Guy

2022-05-05

Pancakes & Pi

Five years ago today I embarked on a multi-year web comic journey. I have May fifth marked in my calendar as a recurring event to remind me that on that day (THIS day) in 2017 I uploaded the first of about 200 comic strips that I wrote and drew. Almost…

2021-12-28

deeper thoughts

Perspective is Everything

As another year comes to an end (in the next few days) it’s hard to remember that just one year ago we were looking with all the hope in the world at 2021 as it approached and left behind a monumentally bad 2020 somewhere in the past. This year hasn’t…

2021-12-07

cast iron, deeper thoughts

Legacy

I’ve never grown older before, so forgive me if you have and I’m just being obvious. The older I get the more I think about the balance between the entropic impermanence of all things and the human urge to continue creating and planning and hoping in the face of that…

2021-09-10

life and stuff

Friday Finds: Pressed Flowers

Fatherhood is funny. Finding honest and interesting things to do with a young child can lead one down all sorts of previously unfollowed paths of creative exploration and into all kinds of time-filling follies. For (nearly) fourteen years I’ve been nudging my daughter to try new things, to explore her…

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about

It’s about more than just food.

It’s about a mindset and a perspective on living a full, active and interesting life.

The Cast Iron Guy blog heated up in January 2021 as a journal of uncomplicated things, life lived, and a mindset that reflects the philosophical practicality of well-seasoned cast iron frying pan: enduring, simple, down-to-earth & extremely useful.

I write regularly from here in the Canadian Prairies about things that interest me, including the artistic inspiration I get outdoors, travel, gear, growing and cooking food, fire craft, suburban and nature trails, running, and (of course) the clever and curious ways I find to use my many pieces of cast iron cookware.