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May 2nd

Things I didn't see myself ever saying:

Watching karaoke at Bar Camp Portland 2009. The crowd is sparse ever since it was announced that a...

May 2nd

So how about that Twitter, eh?

So the price of my passage to K’s work trip to Portland was agreeing to help out at a tech...

May 2nd

We spent last night in the Arctic Hotel - adorned with...

May 1st

You’ve got a beautiful city here, Melanyouth…

May 1st

Flew into Seattle last night and wandered around the warm...

May 1st

It drives me insane that he rolls back the cover of his...

Apr 30th

And we’re off! The woman next to me is returning...

Apr 30th

Guess who has two thumbs and is ecstatic about heading out...

Apr 30th

give me shelter

I’m going to level with you: I may be hiding in the ladies room at a large downtown hotel,...

Apr 29th

and these guys too….

Apr 28th

In the hustle of the week, that rushed in so...

Apr 28th

I could have stayed inside this teepee for quite a while.

Apr 27th

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For a few years, when I was very young, we lived out in the...

Apr 27th

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karion: Pearl Jam, Elderly Woman Behind a Counter in a Small Town What a beautiful, sad, small...

Apr 26th

Country roads take me home… Rolling in to my home...

Apr 25th

“An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other...”
— From Diana Athill’s memoir...

Apr 24th

“One of the reasons I hope physical books don’t disappear...”
— Emily Magazine Heh. I hate...

Apr 24th

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beautifulordinaire: John Prine & Bonnie Raitt - Angel from Montgomery Yeah, I’ve posted...

Apr 23rd

Also, it's over 70 today and I'm...

I successfully suckered K. into letting me tag along on his work trip to Portland next weekend. ...

Apr 23rd

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“Throughout, he refers to scenes from within his family that...”
— Mills, yet again describing...

Apr 22nd

Hilma is dying

It must have been a little after noon today when she called. I saw the “MOM” marqueed against the...

Apr 22nd

Taking myself on a little date. Raspberry ale and mac and...

Apr 21st

Good morning. Today has an abundance of great potential.

Apr 21st

Let’s just say it is 6 pm and I am in sweat...

Apr 20th

There is just a whole lot going on in this photo….

Apr 19th

So yesterday there was a bit of encroaching melancholy in...

Apr 19th

It felt very early to be going to work this morning. An hour...

Apr 17th

Then we drove past this on the way home.

Apr 16th

First we devoured this…

Apr 16th

“This running against the walls of our cage is perfectly,...”
— B. Michael...

Apr 15th

I forgot to introduce you to Bobo. Eternally fascinated by...

Apr 15th

For all my big talk

About admiring humility above all else, there’s an aspect of it that is so hard for me to practice. ...

Apr 15th

The Periodic Table of Typefaces “The typefaces are...

Apr 15th

So happy.  Not so fancy.

Apr 15th

I had the worst camera back in those days, but oh was I...

Apr 15th

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Tonight, I’d give just about anything to be in...

Apr 15th

Went in to have a few pairs of pants hemmed at the little...

Apr 14th

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speakingoffaith: A Culture of Availability to Everybody But Yourself? Trent Gilliss, Online...

Apr 14th

10 Entrepreneurial Concepts to Live By

dembot: This is a post I created awhile back which outlines ten major concepts I live and work by....

Apr 13th

“Call her one, me another fly, We’re tapers too, and...”
— From The Canonization, John...

Apr 13th

I think the size and capacity of my heart actually expands...

Apr 12th

Driving home from easter morning service…

Apr 12th

jakelodwick: AirBnB looks too good to be true! You pay to...

Apr 11th

Today I got spam from a Mr. Nigel...

Which instantly became my new favorite alias.

Apr 11th

“I hurt my pinkie…doing man stuff.”
— K. (Who indeed ripped most of...

Apr 11th

A few miles into the drive, ramon’s 928 broke out a...

Apr 11th

Just about to start the first drive of the year with the...

Apr 11th

I can't help it:

I like that Jai Ho song from Slumdog Millionaire. It gets worse; I actually downloaded it and now I...

Apr 10th

I wandered upon this forgotten shot from Bangkok last...

Apr 10th

This is why I learned Photoshop.

So I literally just had to design a giant thermometer for work – showing how close we are to our...

Apr 10th

Last night I went to a fundraising reception for work and...

Apr 9th

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and...”
— Buddha (via kari-shma; iindia)

Apr 8th

Love the job, but my feet are getting...

Sometimes, starting a new job feels like an endless, exhausting dance: Attempt to read minds. ...

Apr 8th

If I live to be 100

I don’t think I’ll ever realize, in the despair of the moment, how much better things...

Apr 8th

“God speaks to each of us as he makes us, Then walks with us...”
— Ranier Maria Rilke, ...

Apr 8th

“Of all that was done in the past, you eat the fruit, either...”
— T.S. Eliot, “The Spiral...

Apr 7th

““I first met the original memoirist of the Holocaust,...”
— Only a quarter of the way...

Apr 7th

Oh - wait, I almost forgot Yosemite!

Apr 7th

or Yellowstone?

Apr 7th

Lately, I’ve been preoccupied with the notion of a...

Apr 6th

My nephew, whose exuberance is unmatched and spirit...

Apr 6th

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he...”
— Mahatma Gandhi (via...

Apr 6th

On the upside, this fella sits just in the other room....

Apr 6th

and done.  Let’s never speak of this evening of...

Apr 6th

done,

Apr 6th

Done,

Apr 6th

Twice over.  He’s a really good person.

Apr 6th

Amidst my chores, K comes home and spoils me…

Apr 6th

To Do number one = nearly finished.

Apr 5th

Big Plans, Ladies and Gentlemen, Big...

Hoping tumbling my to-do list for the afternoon will not only increase the pressure I feel to...

Apr 5th

But I do want what I haven't got.

So Kraab has to go to Portland for work in early May and I am fervently lobbying for him to let me...

Apr 3rd

The saddest sentence I ever wrote:

Trying to eat lunch and catch up on Tumblr at the same time, I just dragged reheated Hamburger...

Apr 3rd

Best April Fool's prank I've read about in a...

Apr 3rd

K growls when I wear this shirt. Preppy is his kryptonite. ...

Apr 3rd

You've been rolling around my mind this...

i heard there was a secret chord that david played and it pleased the lord but you don’t...

Apr 3rd

notthatkindagay, marseeah: Modern Dose This exists:...

Apr 3rd

Unconcerned with restraint.

I’ve been thinking lately about why women never outgrow the compulsion to confess our love with...

Apr 2nd

Watch

This is well done – really clever and worth your two minutes.

Apr 2nd

Giving Voice to These Acts of...

speakingoffaith: Trent Gilliss, Online Editor A few days ago, I was an emotional mess. I was...

Apr 2nd

If you have to work through lunch, homemade Caprese is some...

Apr 2nd

I love being one of the first in to the...

Partially because that lovely, quiet possibility of the day is still so heavy in the morning....

Apr 2nd

“Does he shop at the airport?!”
— Old man Kraab is shaking his...

Apr 2nd

This is our selection for the next book club meeting three...

Apr 2nd

One more thing:

I never play any practical jokes on April Fools Day because I’m not really sure what an...

Apr 1st

Heading off to book club to discuss this one, which I rather...

Apr 1st