“Champagne Bottle” in Windell Oskay’s Flickr stream.
Licensed via the Creative Commons.
Today, a slightly cliche but oh-so-traditional poem for the new year, Robert Burns’ 1788 crowd-pleaser “Auld Lang Syne.”  In fact, until I looked up the song, I didn’t even know the lyrics.  Probably, if pushed, I could hum the tune– or at least part of [...]

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The year in review (in no particular order):
1. Produce, 2. Postage Tattoo: In Scale, 3. The barn spills outward, 4. Caution: Runners on Road , 5. Oakland Tribune Building, 6. Best Part of Visiting the NPM Events? Stamps Galore!, 7. Love and Football. WHO DAT?, 8. US: Airmail Stamp in Tweezers, 9. Getting [...]

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Beyond the Perf, the online newsletter from USA Philatelic, released the 2011 stamp preview yesterday.  There are some great stamp releases planned for next year!  July is going to be an especially exciting month for me!  That’s when the Owney stamps and the industrial design stamps will be released.

The art of Pixar, the Civil War, [...]

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We’re closing in on Dec. 31, 2010… Can you believe that?!  Although there are much better reasons to make a charitable donation than a year-end tax break, if that’s what motivates you… then, by all means, consider this plea.  I’m running the 2011 Dallas Rock-n-Roll half marathon, which benefits the Susan G. Komen Foundation, in [...]

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As we have discussed, I have a real problem with calendars.  A recent count revealed that I have 6, SIX calendars for 2011.  Even for me, I’m afraid this might be a wee bit too much.  This doesn’t even include all the ones that I want(ed).  So, here’s what will be gracing my walls, desks, [...]

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“Bicycle Christmas Lights” in Richard Masoner’s Flickr Stream.
Licensed via the Creative Commons.
Christmas Night
Conrad Hilberry
Let midnight gather up the wind
and the cry of tires on bitter snow.
Let midnight call the cold dogs home,
sleet in their fur—last one can blow
the streetlights out.   If children sleep
after the day’s unfoldings, the wheel
of gifts and griefs, may their breathing
ease the [...]

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The busiest postal day of the year is behind us and it’s too late to ship things for Christmas delivery (unless you’re willing to pay out the nose).  So, thanks to the lovely folks at Zen Desk (via Gizmodo), let’s take a look at just what the USPS has to [...]

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Just a quick note, I’m really digging the postcards that Found Image Press puts out.  Lately, almost every set f postcards I pick up comes from them. They’ve got some really great ones for DC (and it’s kind of hard to find tasteful, not too in-your-face postcards in this town). In fact, I love almost [...]

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This is the first year in, maybe, 7 years that I haven’t gotten it together to make my own holiday cards and get them sent in time for a Christmas delivery.  It’s not that I didn’t want to make my own, I was busy (more on that later).  So, I’m going to use some of [...]

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As part of NPR’s series “Snail Mail Suffers” (a title that I think is a bit damning, but that’s for another post), the folks at KUT in Austin, TX collected 10 songs about the postal service.  Most of them are classics, but I can’t believe they left off “Some Postman!”  I’m a sucker for the [...]

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