The posts that were better than the other ones when I blogged a lot.
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
Archeology 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
Making weight 18 August
The itch 14 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 January2015
Seven Boxes 30 December
Kissing the Relics 7 NovemberBikes 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
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
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
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
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
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
Goal 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
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
Naomi, 15 May
What three years does, 26 April
Doing Time, 24 February
Joy, 6 January
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
Naomi, 15 May
What three years does, 26 April
Doing Time, 24 February
Joy, 6 January
2006
Meta-Blogging, 1 December
Holy effing bambi, dude, 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
Meta-Blogging, 1 December
Holy effing bambi, dude, 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
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
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
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