Taking a cue from SouleMama, all these photos are my 2008– sums up the year awfully well.  Mch better than I could do in words.
Tonight, Jon and I are going to make tacos, drink martinis (or in my case cosmos), and play Rock Band Two.  Maybe not the hippest New Year’s Eve, but 100% our [...]

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Did a little post-holiday shopping today (it has been unseasonably warm and sunny here lately) and stumbled across this… an inauguration advent calander!  It is, apparently, the product of Chris Whitehead formerly of the Chicago Sun-Times.  You can order them online, but I found mine at the Paper Source in Washington, DC.
We’ve opened the first [...]

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From Post Secret– I hope they are able to raise enough money this holiday to keep the site ad-free.
My family is a big bunch of nerds– not that there is anything wrong with that.  its just that, at Christmas, we all just tend to exchange books with each other.  I love it, since I get [...]

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“Mackinaw” via Sean Connor’s Flickr Stream.  Licensed under the Creative Commons.
Old Coat
by Liam Rector
Dressed in an old coat I lumber
Down a street in the East Village, time itself
Whistling up my ass and looking to punish me
For all the undone business I have walked away from,
And I think I might have stayed
In that last tower [...]

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Friday, my first day of real winter vacation (and in some ways my last day– much reading for my thesis and next semester already calls), I spent sewing.  There was a very small present for a friend in Canada (not that one, the other one), a few letters, and a recipe card.  I’m tempted to [...]

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Jon and I still do Christmas with our families (seperately).  Two years ago we did Christmas together, on the big day, but since we’ve back East there is no reason for him not to go see his family in VA and for me to go back to TX.  Plus, when you’re a grad student you [...]

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Winter Came In
Raymond Foss
Uninvited, unwelcome, too soon
winter came in
in through the open front door
as I sat reading on the couch
came in like a thief in the night
an intruder this evening
when she went outside
a gush of winter, a blast
of the coming cold
pushed its way in,
pushed the warm air aside
sent a shiver through me
with a smell of [...]

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I must say, after spending several weekends with the Civil War reenactors something like Medieval Times just doesn’t quite do it for me any more…  This isn’t to say we didn’t have loads of fun, but I think I might be turning into one of those people who cant go to things like this and [...]

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“Display of Home-Canned Food…” from the Library of Congress’ Flickr stream

“Some Lessons in Poverty”
Doug Van Gundy
Keep yourself and your family clean.
When you are invited to dinner, accept.
A glass of warm
water 20 minutes before a meal
makes a bruised orange or a heel of bread
feel like more.
When you run out of cream, learn to
drink coffee black. [...]

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I dont want to show too much right now…  This is just a little hint at what my holiday cards are going to look like this year.

I think these will go out on Wednesday… I hope.

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