I’ve been busy being creative but with something I can’t really talk about just yet.  I’ll give you a hint: it involves a one year and 3 month commitment and I have to show off my drawings publicly.  I know.
Still wondering?  Well, this post might help.
When it goes live I’ll fill you in.  At the [...]

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“Kleenex” by Tom Magliery on Flickr.  Licensed via the Creative Commons.
Sick
Shel Silverstein
‘I cannot go to school today, ‘
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
‘I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I’m going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I’ve counted sixteen [...]

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Feeling really under the weather today– my tonsils feel a bit like tennis balls.  I’d like to ask for your help for two important causes based in the D.C. area.

First is WEAVE (Women Empowered Against Violence), a group dedicated to helping women and teen girls get out of abusive relationships.  They offer a comprehensive program [...]

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Yesterday was the first day of autumn and the first day I could see my breath as I left the apt to head to work.  It was also, I’ve got to admit, the first day I woke up in a long time and thought “gah! it’s too dark right now, how can it be this [...]

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For Christmas last year Jon gave me a Diana camera, one of the toy cameras I’ve been jonesing after for quite some time. I didn’t have much time to play with it during the spring, school and life managed to keep me tethered to the ease of a digital camera.  I’ve just started trying to [...]

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Night Mail
W H Auden
This is the Night Mail crossing the border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner and the girl next door.
Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb:
The gradient’s against her, but she’s on time.
Thro’ sparse counties she rampages,
Her driver’s eye upon the gauges.
Panting up [...]

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I have to admit something.  I like washing Jon’s work shirts. I know, I know– I’m a self-identified Feminist!  Jon and I split the housework load super evenly and yet… I like washing the man’s shirts.  I think this has less to do with getting wrapped up in some kind of 1950s domestic fantasy and [...]

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I can’t believe I forgot to share this with you– it’s our favorite summer dinner: cabbage salad from Orangette’s book (which I’ve posted about before); bean salad from my mother’s recipe (below); bread, butter, and turnips and; maybe, if we’re feeling fancy (and especially hungry) cream cheese and smoked salmon (or maybe brie or some [...]

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I really like the mail, it is almost like magic to me.  You drop a piece of paper in a blue box on the street corner and then a few days later that same piece of paper ends up across the country.  Other people don’t find this magical, but to me it feels like it [...]

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I have a serious soft spot in my heart for Playmobil.  When I was little I had the Victorian Playmobil dollhouse which I played with long, long after it was acceptable for someone my age to play with dolls.  I used to decorate it for Christmas with tiny candles in the windows and garlands, a [...]

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