red letter day

Good news all over the place today. My e-friend Pollyanna Cowgirl is a guest blogger over at ReadyMade, holy crap! She is a talented Etsy girlie, to boot. My friend Rodney’s documentary got boingboinged today. [definition of “getting boingboinged” here] Me, well, I just found out both my Junk and Science quilts got accepted into…

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tumblr roundup: drums, home edition, the art of not working

Here are some words I posted to tumblr over the past few days. There’s lots more of music-y, linky, video-y goodness over at the hambox tumblr space, including a video I made of our 4-day rainy season. drums in the sky We had some wild weather this afternoon, including a thunderstorm — rare to these…

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i’ll tumble for ya

I have joined tumblr. They call themselves as a “short-form blogging platform,” I call it the place for all the runty snippets that are too small and weak to become blog posts, but seem to thrive in this odd hothouse. This is where I’ll be posting stuff that has no other home, and that really…

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turn turn turn

That’s my tiny mom, being hugged by her big sister way back when. Or perhaps she’s being throttled by her big sister? Man, they were a pair. Best friends and true love their whole entire lives. January 18 marks another year of my mother’s passing. That’s all I want to say about that, except that…

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key finding

The car I now drive, post-accident, is a station wagon that’s been kicking around in my family since the early 90s. It belonged to my mother, then my aunt, then my stepdad, now me. I’m trying to embrace the vintage feel (and smell) of this big ride. This big ride that was manufactured before cup…

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trueblue friend

I just found out today a dear family friend died several months ago — back in May, a day after my birthday. I must have missed the obit. His name was Archie. He was my father Jim’s lifelong friend; they met as small children, at the start of the Great Depression, not too far from…

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What’s on deck for 2010?

Answering Regina‘s question — a good one at that. I’ll show you my resolutions if you show me yours. By the way, this is the closest I’ll get to composing a life list, the fungus-du-jour of the internet. Floss. Target: daily. So far, so good. Four days in and my teeth are feeling frisky. Move…

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