Yes, it’s been a long time.  I know.  But lookie here, I do indeed still make things!  Above, a set of monogrammed note cards I put together for a friend who moved out to California.  I’m pleased with how they came out, especially since I used two different fonts for the R and W.  This [...]

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I’ve recently received loads of pretty postage…  Today, a few of the great bits that arrived in my mailbox over the past few weeks.  All the stamps in the above block, for example, arrived on a great Swap-Bot envelope.

A few stamps featuring Turkey’s first president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, via a Postcrossing card.

“With Good Wishes” stamp [...]

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A Glimpse
by Walt Whitman
A glimpse through an interstice caught,
Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremark’d seated in a corner,
Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving, friends.  It means so much to me that you stop by my (teeny, tiny) corner of the Internet.  Today, I’m revisiting a favorite poem– “Perhaps the World Ends Here” by Joy Harjo.  It’s such a beautiful summation of why we’re drawn to family gatherings (biological or made) around warm bread and good wine.
I [...]

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Actually, these are photos from two weeks ago… but I thought you’d like to see them anyway.  We went up to Baltimore to visit the first (of what I hope will be many) Beckett Hitch markets.

We had brunch at Woodberry Kitchen.  I cannot rave enough about that breakfast.  Seriously, should you find yourself in Baltimore [...]

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“Theater Audience” in Timm Suess’ Flickr Stream.
Licensed via the Creative Commons.
Wish me luck on the GREs this weekend…
Quiz
by Linh Dinh
Invaders invariably call themselves:
a) berserkers
b) marauders
c) frankincense
d) liberators
Our enemies hate us because:
a) we’re sadists
b) we’re hypocrites
c) we shafted them
d) we value freedom
Our friends hate us because:
a) we’re bullies
b) we hate them
c) we’re hypocrites
d) we value freedom
Pushed [...]

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Just a quick announcement, NPR wants to hear about the special, meaningful, or delightful pieces of mail you keep.  Here’s their request (via Facebook):
Have you ever received a letter or postcard that you keep close to your heart — a love letter, a note from a dear relative, a reply to fan mail? Please share [...]

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This weekend I attended a book talk and signing at the National Postal Museum here in DC.  Philip Rubio, a former USPS letter carrier, discussed his new book There’s Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality.  I attended the event because it’s a nice [...]

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“Balloon String” in Micah A. Ponce’s Flickr stream.
Licensed via the Creative Commons.

A Theory of Everything
by Mary Crockett Hill
It has something to do with invisible string
rippling out across a universal sunset,
wrapping us up like the perfect brown corded package.
Something to do with the vibration of stars—
how they flicker in tune with each other, humming cosmically.
And though [...]

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Here I am, Wallace & Gromified!
The US’ winter holiday stamps are fine and good– the pinecones are allright, I suppose, and I’m not personally a fan of the Mary stamps but that’s my own thing.  The UK’s holiday stamps, however, are amazing and so, so cute!  I think I’m going to order a sheet for [...]

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