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Author, CJS Hayward!

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Years back, one friend, Cynthia, explained why she will never own a furry pet. An editor, her work often allows her to be in her apartment building during business hours, and when she walks through the halls, she hears so many whimperings, whinings, barks, and the like, every one of them saying, "Will you come in and be with me?"

Read more of In Celebration of Tribbles, posted Sunday May 17, 2015, the author's fortieth birthday.


What this site is all about:

A showcase of creative works

This site is a showcase of creative works and writing by Christos Jonathan Seth Hayward that have been collected for a couple of decades. The sections of the site About (includes What's New?), Et Cetera, and an online library featuring Orthodox Books and More.

What you can find here:

As over a decade has gone by, Orthodox Books and More has grown to be much more than one section of the website among others. It has several sections of its own, and it has become the crowning jewel of the site, with a great many of its author's favorite works.


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A tale of two watches...

A view of a Casio Pathfinder watch

This article began as an explanation of why I wear two watches. But it ended up being more.

The first watch is a Casio Men's PRW-2500T-7CR Pro Trek Tough Solar Digital Sport Watch: it's not the most expensive Casio Pathfinder-based watch (the G-Shock MT-G MTGS1000V-1A retails for more than three times as much, but as I best remember its classy look is tied to some disadvantages such as not having proper light for any serious nighttime usage), but it's the top of a lower line.

This lower line looks about as classy as any watch I've had, and it is very much a Swiss Army Knife worn on the wrist. It tells the time, but tells the time based on atomic clocks, charges its own battery on scant sunlight, includes a compass, reading for the tides, barometer, moon phase, and a few things more, and appears to be built in such a way that it might outlast its wearer. And I would mention one Art of Manliness article on using a barometer that turned up in a search mentioned that it took some effort to find a barometer at all. And this watch, not this specific model necessarily, represents the last hurrah of an old guard. "In with the new and out with the old": this kind of watch may have a niche (it is ubiquitous among boaters), but if you're going after the best watch money can buy, this kind of thing is no defending champion, and even analogue watches like the G-Shock mentioned earlier, which admittedly look nicer than my digital display, is the wave of the past.

Read more of Christmas gift guide 2015: A tale of two watches..., posted Sunday 15 November 2015, the first day of the Nativity fast (N.S.)


Nice to read on the web:

And nicer in a Kindle or paperback!

This site represents a collection of thousands of pages over decades, and they have been on the web almost from the beginning. But however much they may be available on the web, they were meant to be curled up with.

There are many books drawn from this website, both in paperback and Kindle. Let's pick one example you might consider reading: