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 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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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.
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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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Jon and I spent last weekend in New Orleans celebrating Halloween, visiting family, and screaming our lungs out for the Saints.  Herewith, a few scenes from a late autumn in New Orleans.

101 Runners, Mardi Gras indians, perform at Anba Dlo.

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Today is election day.   Please remember to vote, please make time to vote.  Your boss can’t fire you if you’re late because you had to vote and there was a line, you cant legally be penalized if you had to take a long lunch to vote, those “I voted” stickers are sexy, and it really [...]

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Spent much of this week in San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area.  We arrived Saturday afternoon, surprised a dear friend (he knew I was coming, but not that Jon would join me), and spent most of the next 36 hours drinking strong, west coast coffee, eating great Indian food, wandering, shopping for [...]

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“Everything in Iceland has a milky white quality to it” in Jeanine Caron’s Flickr Stream

Once again, I’ve been away much longer than I meant to.  Unfortunately, well happily for me as a human but not so much for me as a blogger, I’m going to remain busy.  I’m heading to San Francisco and Oakland this [...]

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Last weekend I saw a production of Theresa Rebeck’s Mauritius put on by VA’s First Stage theater.  The play, with a plot described by the New York Times simply as “three thugs and a stamp collection,” centers around a woman who comes into a rather valuable stamp collection, a collector who wants that stamp, and [...]

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I meant to post about this a while ago (ahem like 4 months).  My partner, Jonathan Murphy, and his friends made a movie for the NYC 48-Hour Film Festival and WON!  Their film (above), “A Feline Between Love and Hate,” won audience choice, best writing, and best film.  It will be screened at the “Filmapalooza” [...]

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