been thinking...

An Open Letter to Girl Scout Cookies,

My dear sweet biscuits, I know the time we spend together each year is fleeting.  That the long...

Mar 3rd

Pressing Issues of the Day

Are we the only ones that perpetually have a shelf full of cereal boxes that each house juuuuust too...

Mar 3rd

This is not the Pollyanna tone with...

However:  Listen up women who are my colleagues, acquaintances and friends.  I am done with your...

Mar 3rd

We had no plans to go snowboarding; The primary purpose of...

Mar 3rd

Also, we saw this guy and so I did not demand a refund for...

Mar 3rd

So we’re back from Banff.  If anything epitomizes the...

Mar 3rd

Oh hello there - I forgot to tell you we have been in Banff...

Mar 2nd

Ah Edna, you are all over my mind today.

Feb 27th

Pity me not because the light of day At close of day no longer walks the sky; Pity me not for...

Feb 27th

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under...

Feb 27th

Messianic Judaism

Feb 27th

So, these are my choices for book club...

1.)  Shantaram: By Gregory David Roberts From Publishers Weekly At the start of this massive,...

Feb 27th

jlovely: “I was never one to patiently pick up broken...

Feb 27th

“I think that mostly I am shocked by the world, by how...”
— Deb Olin Unferth, in an...

Feb 27th

“There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but...”
— sylvia plath, in The Bell Jar....

Feb 26th

It’s blizzarding out!

Driving snow is raging down and rushing back up, obscuring every path toward productivity.  Also,...

Feb 26th

Dokdo or Takeshima Isolated, tiny and desolate, The...

Feb 26th

Why I don't believe in recycling.

In the parking garage at my office, there is a garbage bin near the door that is, somehow, always at...

Feb 26th

If you're not reading Meaghano, your...

meaghano: Barely scraping the surface, to be honest. I still remember when we stopped at a red...

Feb 26th

I just gave two weeks notice to my boss.

And he was so incredibly kind about it I kind of want to cry.  I’m leaving to go to work for a non...

Feb 25th

booksarebetterthanboys:  Lizzie Buckmaster Dove Cacophony:...

Feb 25th

 Two things: 1.) For years I worked at the state capital,...

Feb 25th

The forest for the trees.

This morning while I was bustling around, readying for a big day at work, K went down to the gas...

Feb 25th

I love Boehner.

I can’t help it. I love his crazy year round tan and his slow like honey southern drawl. I...

Feb 25th

notthatkindagay:thewarindrew: “The controversial...

Feb 24th

Listen

unicornology: soupsoup:nedhepburn: The White Stripes “We Are Gonna Be Friends”

Feb 24th

“Praise the bridge that carried you over”
— George Colman

Feb 24th

juliekraut: One guy did offer to drive us somewhere on his friend’s moped which we’d have to rent...

Feb 24th

Another story that gives me faith in humanity:It has become...

Feb 23rd

maybe it's fight or flight.

Some days my heart swells and thumps in rhythms too large for my chest. And I promise you our...

Feb 23rd

Listen

Happy Monday littleorphanammo: Nico/These Days These days I seem to think a lot About the things...

Feb 23rd

“We went back to my apartment after the second class. I gave her a tour, and when she peeked...

Feb 23rd

K. is actually watching this; tragically sucked into the...

Feb 22nd

I’m a huge fan of slapping.  In my mind typically,...

Feb 22nd

It’s not what I am ready to lose, it’s...

beautifulordinaire: Philippe Petit

Feb 22nd

I welcome you to the Longest Magic Carpet in the World**. ...

Feb 21st

That is easier said than done, magic carpet.

Feb 21st

Today, we went snowboarding. Really, K wanted to take his...

Feb 21st

shanai-matteson: This is my mom 29 years ago, a few months...

Feb 20th

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to...”
— Henry Ford In about three...

Feb 20th

I'm embarrassed to admit

That I used to think Papyrus was a perfectly acceptable - nay, even a cool  font.  Sometimes I feel...

Feb 20th

(via juliekraut) I don’t know you ladies, but I am...

Feb 20th

Listen

via anjywanjy, copycats: Nobody Does It Better by Radiohead originally by Carly Simon (via precis) ...

Feb 20th

Listen

King of Pain - Alannis Morissette. Don’t laugh, it’s pretty good.

Feb 20th

Play it cool, Nora. Play it cool.

noraleah: This morning on the subway platform I squealed at a cute little munchkin-face in a pink...

Feb 20th

“If we want to know what happiness is we must seek it, not as...”
— — W. Beran Wolfe (1932) (via...

Feb 20th

“Practice Ubuntu - an African term that means what makes us...”
— I like Nora’s solution...

Feb 19th

I'm starting to suspect most of the...

Fear of failing, fear of looking foolish, fear of comparison, fear of being left out.  It doesn’t...

Feb 19th

The inside flap of “Little Bee” by Chris...

Feb 19th

“I left the east coast and everything it stands for. I’m...”
— Bob Lefsetz (via...

Feb 19th

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Feb 19th

kraabel: Крысы позируют (16 фото) » Из сети ::...

Feb 19th

“I don’t understand about Diamonds and why men buy...”
— Red, Red, Red – Fiona Apple

Feb 18th

In the Wheat Fields of Kenya, a Budding...

Feb 18th

Kraab, I’m thinking next trip destinations…

Feb 17th

A friend emailed this morning

to ask my thoughts on “must sees” in Southeast Asia.  I just finished writing a two page...

Feb 17th

Three things for today:

1.)  I have a pot roast cooking at home today and the knowledge fills me with secret, Martha...

Feb 17th

Just so you know.

The idea of being called darling is nauseating, but you can call me darlin’ until the cows...

Feb 17th

“You owe it to us all to get on with what you’re good at.”
— w.h. auden (via hrrrthrrr,...

Feb 16th

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Today, when my work about the house was done, I played...

Feb 16th

“I had a musicology professor who said that when he didn’t...”
— Mills on Seeking the...

Feb 15th

“To cut off your hair after a breakup is a feminine reaction....”
— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex...

Feb 15th

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all...”
— Sylvia Plath (via...

Feb 15th

There's no controlling the second heart.

It’s Valentine’s eve and somehow, I am mentally stuttering over the question of how...

Feb 15th

fascinating: Tonight, Valentine’s night, as my sick baby...

Feb 15th

“I want to find a ringtone that is the sound of an old-school...”
— (via melanyouth) Me too!

Feb 14th

For Valentine’s Day, K not only agreed to volunteer at...

Feb 14th

speakingoffaith: Footprints Andy Dayton, Associate Web...

Feb 13th

“The word ‘moist’ is also my least favourite...”
— Fascinating If we can only...

Feb 13th

For desert last night, my friend Dawn’s fiance brought...

Feb 13th

Cooking dinner for friends...

Making spaghetti with an Italian sausage and mushrooms sauce AND homemade Mac and Cheese. No salad....

Feb 13th

“Peter McWealth (petermcwealth1@gmail.com)”
— Favorite spam author of the...

Feb 12th

sabine: Next time you’re in Stockholm and are looking for...

Feb 12th

That sounds painful...

Today’s cookie fortune: “Someone has complimented you today in your absence.”

Feb 11th

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This weekend we sojourned up north, back to my roots to...

Feb 11th

mills: Everything human ends, but stuff persists. My house...

Feb 11th

Ooooh it must be magic how inside your...

When I was in 7th grade, I was a fairly sheltered youth. Still obediently under my parents’ thumb –...

Feb 10th

New York Magazine: How Tweet It Is

Feb 10th

Heh. (via notthatkindagay, filigree)

Feb 10th

Things that make me a disbeliever in...

Tonight when I got home from a too long happy hour with old political friends, there were two little...

Feb 10th

Can it really be a coincidence

that I only get migraines at work?

Feb 9th

“There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain...”
— Tennessee Williams (via...

Feb 9th

“You start out by being promiscuous, and end up like your...”
— The Quiet American

Feb 9th

“I can’t say what made me fall in love with Vietnam. ...”
— Opening lines, The Quiet...

Feb 9th

I’ve been thinking that subtlety is an...

Analysis and communication are king this era. We talk every issue until it’s worn soft….until we’ve...

Feb 9th

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women have a...”
— Oscar Wilde (via...

Feb 7th

It’s done!  My first knitting project:  A chunky,...

Feb 7th

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Feb 6th

via

Feb 6th

“An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to...”
— Chinese Proverb I really love...

Feb 6th

“I raised $17,000 from ex-boyfriends — true story! I know...”
— Senator Amy Klobuchar (via...

Feb 6th

My professional life is really a...

This morning in a strategy meeting, I wrote on my face. I felt it happen and tried, subtlety, to...

Feb 5th

A Hopi Elder Speaks

 I posted this a while back and, as things tend to do, it means something different to me now then...

Feb 5th

Hackers make electronic road signs warn motorists of...

Feb 4th

Protesters March Above La Paz The Big Picture

Feb 4th

rrrogers: Bolivia and its new constitution - The Big Picture...

Feb 4th

Listen

onemoretimewithfeeling: Kansas - Carry On My Wayward Son

Feb 4th

beautifulordinaire: Dear Erica, The cowl is crocheted which is endlessly easier than knitting. ...

Feb 3rd

And that made up for a lot.

Walked back from the hospital today in the stagnant cold and slanted afternoon sunlight. The...

Feb 3rd

beautifulordinaire: fareastmeetswildwest: Etsy :: ozetta...

Feb 3rd

Comcast searching for saboteur

Feb 3rd

Overheard at work:

“Well you know there’s a horse that has a prosthesis…”

Feb 3rd

We stayed in the Lewis Carroll room…

Feb 3rd

Feb 3rd

I cannot tell you how charming, how old-world-intoxicating...

Feb 3rd

This weekend, Kraab took me to the impeccable Rivertown Inn...

Feb 3rd

Last night I had this dream that I can’t...

I dreamt we bought a house. A house that seemed wonderful at first – I was so excited when I found...

Feb 2nd

F*** My Life - FML : Your everyday life...

Feb 2nd