“Amy’s 5th gr report card” in Stan McCoy’s Flickr Stream
Licensed via the Creative Commons.
Gee, You’re So Beautiful That It’s Starting to Rain
Richard Brautigan
Oh, Marcia,
I want your long blonde beauty
to be taught in high school,
so kids will learn that God
lives like music in the skin
and sounds like a sunshine harpsichord.
I want high school report cards
to look [...]

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Scenes from our weekend in the VA country– taken by a film camera!

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Spent the weekend in the VA countryside with some new friends– many from work.  As a thank you to our two hosts/planners/gourmet cooks I am going to award them adult merit badges. The border is just some free clip art from the Florida Educational Technology Clearinghouse.  I did the text in MSWord, printed it on [...]

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Late February
Gail Mazur
Late February, and the air’s so balmy
snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled
into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard
will come, blighting our harbingers of spring,
and the numbed yards will go back undercover.
In Florida, it’s strawberry season?
shortcake, waffles, berries and cream
will be penciled on the coffeeshop menus.
Available online via Opossumsal Homestead

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Look what Sarah made me!  My very own nest.  Honestly, this is just perfect for me and my mood these days.  The snow outside looks like it’ll be sticking around for a while.  I know folks in New England think this is normal but this is just not what we do in DC.  It just [...]

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I am in love with these spoof merit badges.  I’ve been looking around for merit badges lately, and I’m not really sure how I got onto this trend.  Well, “trend” in my life– obviously, not a trend in other people’s lives.  They’re cheap too.  Most of the badges from Boy Scout Store are $1.50-3.00/each! Oh [...]

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I want to show you our bed.  It’s the cheapest Ikea bed that will hold a queen mattress, doesn’t have a foot-board (poor Jon is too tall and his feet stick off the ends of all beds), and doesn’t require a box spring.  The Dalselv hasn’t been the worst– when I first got it I [...]

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First, how do you like the site’s re-design?  I’m diggin’ the new banner but worried that the blue-brown is a) cliche and b) a bit dark.  It’s still winter, after all, and something about this brown just doesn’t feel quite as happy as I’d hoped it might.
After several days without mail delivery (the horror!) due [...]

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“Mail Cart” in Computationally.Intractable’s Flickr stream.
Licensed via the Creative Commons.

These lines came from a poem quoted in The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance and attributed to James Beaton c. 1840.
Something I want to write upon, to scare away each vapour—
The ” Penny Postage” shall I try ? Why, yes, I’ll write on paper.
Thy great [...]

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Ever since I made Liz stationery last week I can’t stop thinking about monograms.  I’ve seriously been staying away thinking about how my friends’ initials might tangle up nicely and what colors they’d like.  Everyone is getting monogrammed notes for their birthdays this year…  There are a lot of rules for monogramming but I quite [...]

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