Journal

21 Aug 2026

What we kept, and what we quietly threw away

Restoring a 1906 forestry officer's cottage is mostly deciding what not to fix. The deodar floors stayed. The wiring, the plumbing and the fireplaces went,...

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09 Aug 2026

One party at a time, and the arithmetic of that

We could let three rooms separately and earn more. We do not, and this is the honest accounting of why — what it costs us, and what it buys the people who...

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28 Jul 2026

Mashobra in the rain

Everyone comes in May. July and August are the months the deodars actually do something: mist to the windows, rain on a tin roof, and nobody on the forest...

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