Last night we feasted!  Well, maybe not feasted but after some research I figured out that my basil plants were way overdue for some pruning given the small size of the container I’m growing them in.  So, I plucked the leaves off, gave them a quick rinse, and broke out the bread, mozzarella, peppers, and [...]

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Detail of art hanging on living room wall (Click through to Flickr for information on the friends and artists’ work shown here).

So, our apartment has really nice thick walls– great for insulating us from neighbor noise.  Seriously, I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve heard our neighbors.  However, these lovely thick, [...]

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“Fireflies” from Jinx Etling’s Flickr stream.
Licensed via the Creative Commons.
Summer Stars
by Carl Sandburg
BEND low again, night of summer stars.
So near you are, sky of summer stars,
So near, a long arm man can pick off stars,
Pick off what he wants in the sky bowl,
So near you are, summer stars,
So near, strumming, strumming,
So lazy and [...]

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A few weeks ago I listened to Louis Fresco’s TEDtalk on “Feeding the Whole World.”  By the way, if you don’t listen to the TED podcast please subscribe to it now).  I’ve been thinking about it ever since and have more than once used it as part of an argument on behalf of responsible corporate [...]

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As if we needed more evidence that I am an 85-year old lady: my new electric kettle makes me unbelievably happy.  I’ll freely admit that it is probably more electric kettle than I really need– I mean it isn’t like I can actually taste the difference in my 212 degree made coffee and 200 degree [...]

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Some readers of this blog know that I really, really want to be a runner but am, at best, a fast walker.  I have a lot of admiration for long distance runners– much of it because I’ve never been able to really push through that first mile of yucky, unfun, heavy breathing, feeling like a [...]

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We’ve been going to a lot of movies lately– in part this is because Jon loves movies and will sit through just about anything.  Mostly, though, I think Hollywood has finally come out of its slump.  For a while there was just nothing I wanted to pay $8 to sit through.  That phase seems to [...]

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I’ve been away from this space way too long, I know.  There was a minor problem with my laptop that required getting the monitor replaced (gasp) and it isn’t quite fixed yet (I know, this stresses me out too– at least it made it through my thesis).  Anyway, I’ve been forced to keep myself busy [...]

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Wow, Bashfully Designed is one year old today… Hard to believe that in the last year I’ve put up 170 posts (better than I thought I’d to, if we’re being honest) and shared 40 poems.  I’ve also started to face up to a few of my creativity fears (ahem failure ahem), and to at least [...]

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Hello, my name is Ashley and I am a terrible gardener.  Personally, I don’t think it should be all that hard to grow herbs inside and so I am kind of taking this whole fungus and bug infestation thing kind of personally.  I did everything right– I did!  There are rocks and some sand and [...]

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