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2009

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2008

December 23

November 103

October 116

September 95

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July 133

June 90

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January 46

2007

December 32

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So this is happening right now. And as a result, my palms...

I'm still intrigued...

From the NPR review of “Adoration.” Every review I read on it has a markedly different...

Trying to work at the coffee shop, spying on Kids Today.

Papa John’s founder John Schnatter will give...

Five Confessions

1.) I bagged my intended bike ride this evening so I can go lie in my sweet hammock and read. 2.)...

The skies have never been this blue

Halfway through my morning – after getting stood up for a coffee meeting by the woman who requested...

GPOYW - A girl and her camera edition. Taken at the top of...

GPOYourSecretArmorW It’s almost impossible to NOT...

Phrases I am keen to employ more often:

1.) Saying anything is or isn’t “Right in my wheelhouse.” Ok, really...

Phrases that make me want to stab...

1.) “Let’s talk about that off-line.” 2.) “I’m gonna push back at...

Would you be in Paris by now, if you...

So K. is signing up to do a 48 hour film festival in June. Basically, your team has to write an...

This is not my beautiful wife.

At night, I wander in, balancing a bag of groceries on one hip, my cloth work tote on the other. ...

The day started out with a bit of melancholy…fits of...

“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the...”
— Barbara Bloom (via...

The movie store is nothing if not self-aggrandizing tonight.

It would be hard to beat this day and impossible to find...

Like you’d pass up the chance to star in your own...

Glamourizing life on the factory lines today is the only...

Saturday at the Childrens Museum…potentially one of...

A long drive. A hot afternoon. A classic car.

“What can one do? Go home, love your children, try not to...”
— Theresa Brown, writing in NYT...

Trying to finish a freelance project but having more luck...

“I think we reminded them of what peace was like, we boys of...”
— “A Separate Peace”...

I just want to know when I'm going to...

This is why I haven’t had children: This braying, undefeatable fear that I will resent them...

“I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they...”
— Cry The Beloved Country

“Pale Blue Eyes”

So I’m sitting in a quiet office, everyone hunched over laptops, relentlessly hoeing their own...

“Words were so much more alive and more difficult to handle,...”
— Paul Bowles in The Sheltering...

Dog days come early.

We’re still in those tepid morning hours – of mid May, nonetheless. And yet, my pants already lie...

“The home becomes like a forest which needs the periodic...”
— Mills

This is what life looks like: sweaty, messy, happy. ...

Three things we should talk about:

1.) When I was little - really little, the kind of young you can only just remember if you crane...

My friend Em graduated from law school this weekend and...

Best. Graduation. Party. Ever.

“I want to spend the time I have doing things that make my...”
— The Great Buck Howard (via...

(via myserendipities)

On Writing

unicornology:,nickzed: “I go to the library, and I open my laptop, and I sit there, regardless of...

Enlightenment looks a lot like a cup of tea and a chocolate...

Superfluous compliments

make me uncomfortable and suspicious.

So I’m planning a small work event at this place....

On staying put

This morning called for a new Pandora station: entrusted to channel Hallelujah and its...

“But there is little one can do to consciously direct the...”
— Mills Sigh. As jarringly...

The air is angsty and cold today but not enough to deter...

“Stop worrying about doing the next thing right and start...”
— My new mantra. Thanks Michael...

“Bill Murray says with his deadpan candor, “I’ve...”
— So I didn’t watch the...

Sometimes I spend a little time thinking about my penchant...

Having a working dinner at McCoy’s and trying to find an unlocked wireless connection. ...

Saving graces...

The non-profit I work for just received a $50,000 – unexpected, additional – gift from Best Buy. I...

Pulled Paolo Nutini out of a dusty back seat this morning and on the drive in, remembered how much I...

Also, I wore ruffles today. Clearly, I’m too tired...

Guilty pleasures =

Unabashedly enjoying “Leather and Lace” AND “Cherish” on the solo drive...

GPOYW - stuck in traffic and apparently shocked at how late...

noraleah: Testing the theory of six degrees of separation...

Starting to go through pictures from the weekend. I’m...

So I can pretty much die happy now. K and I just drove to...

Last night we holed up at the Hotel Monaco in Portland -...

I'm starting to get a little delirious.

So we are still here. Still at the tech conference, taking pictures of meme-y t-shirts that stopped...

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...

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...

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

You’ve got a beautiful city here, Melanyouth…

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