“Misty road to 2007” from Hans S’ Flickr stream.
Licensed via the Creative Commons.

Mist
by Henry David Thoreau
Low-anchored cloud,
Newfoundland air,
Fountain head and source of rivers,
Dew-cloth, dream drapery,
And napkin spread by fays;
Drifting meadow of the air,
Where bloom the dasied banks and violets,
And in whose fenny labyrinth
The bittern booms and heron wades;
Spirit of the lake and seas and [...]

[Read more →]

Image via Martha Stewart Living
I think the walls in our new apartment (well, and in the old one too– in our building) are plaster and are really, really hard to get nails and/or screws into.  So of course, all I want to do is find hip things to make our walls interesting that require nails [...]

[Read more →]

I knew 2009 would be the year of the mail!  In honor of Memorial Day, the New York Times did a story on 1940s film star Donna Reed who kept several hundred letters she received from World War II GIs.  There is also a fascinating interactive feature that shows several of the pages from letters [...]

[Read more →]

The Yellow Bicycle
by Robert Hass
The woman I love is greedy,
but she refuses greed.
She walks so straightly.
When I ask her what she wants,
she says, “A yellow bicycle.”
.
Sun, sunflower,
coltsfoot on the roadside,
a goldfinch, the sign
that says Yield, her hair,
cat’s eyes, his hunger
and a yellow bicycle.
.
Once, when they had made love in the middle of the night and
it [...]

[Read more →]

We did not have any nooks in our last apartment.  In part this was because our old apartment was itself more or less just a nook.  Plus, we had a huge closet that we actually had to use for storage (I know!) instead of turning it into a special sub-room or something.  Anyway, that is [...]

[Read more →]

There are days when I love living in DC.  Yesterday was one of those days.  I’ve been reading an interesting book called The Race Beat about the reporters in the South who covered the Civil Rights movement.  It is hardly an uplifting book, I have such a hard time reading about the Civil Rights movement, [...]

[Read more →]

Graduation Day at Georgetown.

I hadn’t meant to take a week away from this space but, in quick sucession, we moved, I graduated, my family arrived, my family left, my friends started to move, and we napped (not in that order, however).  It’s been an awfully emotional week or so.  Today I have some photos from [...]

[Read more →]

“Vintage Shot” via Ray Beaulieu’s Flickr Stream.  Licensed under the Creative Commons.

We Are Many
Pablo Neruda
Of the many men whom I am, whom we are,
I cannot settle on a single one.
They are lost to me under the cover of clothing
They have departed for another city.
When everything seems to be set
to show me off as a man [...]

[Read more →]

Spent the entire day yesterday working on the new central hub for my strategic online presence: www.AEBowen.com.  It isn’t 100% done yet, I want to change the color blocks behind title text, but I’m still learning CSS.  Still, it was a lot more fun than I thought it’d be and I really like the theme [...]

[Read more →]

I am super excited about these “King & Queen of Hearts” stamps, available from the USPS this Friday, May 8th.  Glad, too, that these are going to be an available alternative to the Simpsons’ stamps, which to be honest I don’t like, and flags.  For reasons I don’t even really understand myself I’m not a [...]

[Read more →]