Audry Tautou in Coco Avant Chanel
It’s been a wheezy, sneezy, stuffy few weeks around here.  I got (another) cold and then Jon caught it too.  We’ve been doing a lot of trashy-TV watching and drinking a lot of lemon tea.  I finally felt well enough this weekend to head out to see Coco Avant Chanel.  [...]

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Remembering Mountain Men
William Stafford
I put my foot in cold water
and hold it there: early mornings
they had to wade through broken ice
to find the traps in the deep channel
with their hands, drag up the chains and
the drowned beaver. The slow current
of the life below tugs at me all day.
When I dream at night, they save a [...]

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“Stand Up Straight” 2010 calendar from Athertonlin’s Etsy shop.
Perhaps you remember last year when I kind of panicked about my calendar rut.  It’s come again– to Moleskine or not to Moleskine for my day planner, to head back to the Nikki McClure calendar I’ve sort of missed even though I loved the art I had [...]

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Jon and I spent much of Halloween brainstorming ideas and tracking down the excellent candy bits for our Halloween cupcakes.  We’ve made cupcakes like this almost every year since… maybe 2004?  Right after we started dating.  Anyway, we ran out of bone sprinkles a year or so ago and kind of lost steam.  This year, [...]

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“Dia de los Muertos Band” from PurpleTwinkie’s Flickr stream.  Licensed via the Creative Commons.
El muerto al cajon, y el vivo al fieston! (The dead one to the coffin and the living one to the big party)– Dia de los Muertos greeting.
I feel a bit bad about how into Dia de los Muertos I am– after [...]

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