Yesterday was Women’s Equality Day!  90 years ago women in the United States gained the right to vote and ever since have been a political force to be reckoned with– on both sides of the metaphorical isle.  So today, 90 years and 1 day after our grandmothers’ gained the right to vote, indulge me just [...]

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On vacation in Martha’s Vineyard with dear friends from college…

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Thanks to my friend Dan, I’ve found a suitable answer to my desperate question regarding music not unlike the Deadwood theme: William Elliott Whitmore.  Frankly, Mr. Whitmore, where have you been all my life?!  A bearded, tattooed man described as having “a voice that sounds like the reincarnation of an old gospel preacher from [...]

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Friends, this is a semi-urgent matter.
I love, love the theme song to Deadwood.  Please recommend another band/group/genre I would like.  I simply refuse to be one of those people who listens to a TV theme song… although, I have thought about setting it as my cell phone ring tone.  Don’t judge– Deadwood is a great [...]

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Happy Fourth of July everyone!
It’s a bit different than the usual Friday fare around here, but I think you’ll enjoy it.  Have a lovely, long weekend.

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Since last week I posted about the oil spill, something outside the usual scope of this blog, I thought “why not keep the trend going?”  I hope you’ll all take a few minutes to read about the UN Foundation’s GirlUp! campaign.  A few summers ago I (like everyone else in the US) read Three Cups [...]

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As promised, some images from this weekend’s “Pen Petting Zoo” at the National Postal Museum!  It was loads of nerdy, postal fun.  I have to say, I think I enjoyed the ink table more than the pens.  Not only were the bottles just beautiful (and I took a lot of photos of the bottles) but [...]

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Yep, last Thursday I got inked: a postage stamp with a mockingbird inside it. Much though I may hate to admit it at times, I’m a Texas girl.  Whenever we visit or even just fly through DFW my whole body relaxes a bit and I can just sense that I’m home.  I lived in TX [...]

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

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After we got over the sting of not making it to NOLA for the Super Bowl, the blizzard was something else.  We’re lucky, our apartment building didn’t loose power or heat.  However, there are 25 inches of snow on the ground.  TWENTY FIVE INCHES!  That’s more snow than I’ve ever seen in my life.  Ever.

So [...]

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