been thinking...

One in a series of mental polaroids

How can you forget being a kid who was sick?  When the fever burned from inside your eye...

Jul 1st

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tylercoates: Dinosaur Jr. - “Start Choppin” Will I never outgrow Dinosaur Jr?  Someone, I forgot...

Jul 1st

expectingrain: I asked you about every girlfriend you’d ever had, my hand in yours as we walked...

Jul 1st

Sushi after work with the ladies, which is a pretty good...

Jul 1st

Today is my year end review. In one hand I hold the number...

Jun 30th

What’s better than morning grass and blue jeans?

Jun 30th

“We travel, in essence, to become young fools again —...”
— Pico Iyer (even though I find...

Jun 30th

I could sit and watch a stormy lake all night. Until I...

Jun 30th

Words I hate, part two or three:

1.)  “Ouster” Ugh. Shoot me now.  Why is every journalist who covers local, national or world...

Jun 29th

Ramstad is considering a run for governor

Jun 29th

Mountains might be in order…

Jun 29th

Chairman Mao says Erica’s itchy feet need some foreign...

Jun 29th

There are signs everywhere.

This evening on my bike ride around the deserted lake, abandoned for dark places that hold greater...

Jun 28th

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via onemoretimewithfeeling & applebottom: Weezer - No One Else I want a girl who will...

Jun 27th

Things that please me today:

1.)  I got off my mopey duff and went for a nice long bike ride this morning before work.  ‘Round...

Jun 24th

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Let My Love Open the Door - Covered by Sondre Lerche Yep, this is a repeat post.  But come on - how...

Jun 24th

GPOYW Praying that soft white clothes will cool me today.

Jun 24th

Last August at some hipster art fair, in between wiping...

Jun 24th

“Be still and have faith.”
— This is my mantra today, and...

Jun 23rd

And this is the mood I’m in:

1.    To write long, melodramatic midnight letters, by the open window, with a serious pen. 2.    To...

Jun 22nd

“There is no renewal in all of nature without preceding loss.”
— I’ve not been to church in...

Jun 22nd

“Last thing: In attempting to convince you to buy this book,...”
— Dave Eggers, from the foreword...

Jun 22nd

I Think You're Fat - Esquire

Jun 22nd

Taking my dad to Father's Day breakfast

In my hometown - Freddies Family Restaurant, if you want to know - and one of my old teachers just...

Jun 21st

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dogganghappened, havent-got-a-prayer: God Only Knows - Mandy Moore and Michael Stipe 1.) This...

Jun 21st

“As Kundera said: memory isn’t the opposite of...”
— Mills gives me a needed gentle...

Jun 21st

Jun 21st

Spending the weekend up at my mom and dad’s, taking a...

Jun 21st

via sarandipity79:

Jun 19th

“Something will grow from this And it will be me”
— Years ago, during a...

Jun 19th

I'm just saying..

That having a role in our 48 hour film may be the most thrilling thing I’ve done in ages.  We...

Jun 18th

On the unceasing goodness of people

So this year was not an easy one where I work.  As is to be expected in this economy, our donations...

Jun 17th

Modern wilderness of the American Male

So I’m reading a new book:  “The Broken American Male” by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. ...

Jun 17th

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by...”
— When You Are Old by William...

Jun 15th

A fools' errand?

I’ve never been one to long for conflict-free relationships. What’s really crucial to...

Jun 15th

meaghano: So I shuffled my way across our yards and...

Jun 15th

Shooting is done, sound is done, editing is mostly done....

Jun 14th

(via myserendipities)

Jun 14th

Director Romeo sets up another nailbiting, heartwarming,...

Jun 14th

The leading man, Nate, preps for a scene with his “big...

Jun 14th

Kraab talking the historic trolley driver (that refers to...

Jun 14th

Starting to film the bar scene now.  Thanks, Aura!

Jun 13th

So far today, I have: Gotten four and a half hours of...

Jun 13th

Tragically, they wouldn’t write a movie around this...

Jun 13th

jgh: JPG Magazine: Photos: “Snowy” by Dina Goldstein ...

Jun 13th

At the 48 hour film fest kick-off:

We drew romance. 47 hours to produce a 4 to 7 minute masterpiece…

Jun 12th

“Travel, like war, has a way of unveiling the truth about a...”
— Adam Cayton-Holland (via...

Jun 12th

In an unusual fit of vanity, I had my eye brows tweezed...

Jun 12th

Walking past a beaut like this always makes my feet slow...

Jun 12th

“My admittedly strange opinion is that we need to try harder...”
— Dave Eggers (via buyhercandy,...

Jun 12th

This reminded me. I took this photo a few years back, at...

Jun 12th

Jun 12th

Jun 12th

Took my nieces and nephews to see “Up” tonight....

Jun 12th

“The roar of traffic… Ceaselessly, in great surges, the waves...”
— W.G. Sebald, Vertigo. There is...

Jun 11th

Why didn’t anyone tell me?

When I hum, (“Hallelujah” is my default – the long version, though sometimes it can stray into...

Jun 11th

This week’s Big Picture set features internally...

Jun 11th

“I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a...”
— The Hours (via julie911,...

Jun 11th

This is the face of a very happy woman, after the last big...

Jun 10th

“But it so happens that we were Westerners and that periods...”
— via Mills

Jun 10th

So this happened last night while I was cooking strawberry /...

Jun 10th

If I just close my eyes for a while, will my work rearrange...

Jun 10th

Is there a term for misspelling

a word pertaining to education or intelligence? Because there should be. I just proofread a...

Jun 9th

“I’m no Buddhist monk, and I can’t say I’m in love with...”
— - Pico Iyer, in NYT (via...

Jun 9th

I'm not giong to lie to you: We watched...

That’s right – TLC put together a sensationalistic special on children across the globe who are...

Jun 8th

"To A Serious Woman" by Judith Mickel...

You are a serious woman who laughs and raises a daughter alone. But when the poems don’t...

Jun 8th

Rainy Saturdays were made for soaking in my tub.

Jun 6th

Oh, just sitting here eating jelly beans...

So we went out to a car show this morning and it rained on us for hours.  I brought my camera to...

Jun 6th

(via myserendipities)

Jun 6th

“There are four things you have to do in life: Show...”
— My friend Sal was sharing this...

Jun 5th

In which I sound like a commercial for...

So last night we gathered like a reserve troop in support of a coworker who’s become unexpectedly...

Jun 5th

On my way to girls’ night armed with cold Riesling,...

Jun 4th

So these showed up, courtesy of the best man I know…

Jun 4th

Dear Check Engine Light, We must stop meeting like this. ...

Jun 4th

Nothing feels worse than being left...

Yesterday on the drive to work, I saw a boy – maybe 10 years old – running for the school bus.  Do...

Jun 3rd

“Yesterday was the last day of summer. And it makes sense...”
— David Semanki, “Rain” ...

Jun 2nd

Tuesday confessions:

1.)  Lately, I’ve been listening to books on tape (ok, cd – but that doesn’t sound right) to break...

Jun 2nd

Yesterday bore the annual trip to the greenhouse, the...

Jun 2nd