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alcatraz
It’s the Fourth Friday Challenge for May. My friend Paul and I, both posting daily in 2011, decided to give each other a job once a month to keep things spicy. In his words, “we want to push ourselves to do something more interesting than we might otherwise.” I will put his challenge to me…
Read Moretale of two to-dos
This is my sister’s to-do list that she created while visiting me last month. Organized, aesthetically appealing — and most importantly, all of the to-dos have been efficiently checked off. That is the way of my industrious yankee kinfolk. Let’s compare that list with this … thing. This is a bag of old, used up…
Read Morecraftorama roundup 2011
I going on the radio today to talk about crafting and quilting which are things that I sometimes do when I’m not obsessing about food or whining about my hip flexor. I am making appearance #2 on Lyn and Cyn’s Women Talk program on KKZZ. You can read/hear about the first appearance (where I talked…
Read Moreexercise in serenity
Thanks for the support in my blog’s comments and in my real life (is there a difference?) regarding the loss of my friend. Those of us who knew him are still kind of shocked and wrung out. I got the news on Saturday morning and have been sinking lower and lower as the reality gets…
Read Morebe not proud
My friend Jon died. I keep composing and deleting, composing and deleting. I’ll just try to get some stupidly incomplete and inadequate words out, and be done with it here. I met him when I was 18 and he was 19, in the dorms at Berkeley. He was weird, wonderful, odd, wild, troubled. He married…
Read Moremay-B
I got some lovely things for my birthday. I had indicated that I did not want presents but would accept consumable and libations. My friend Karin gave me a dozen bagels and a unbelievable schmear from a secret awesome bagel place out in the east county. Oh my god. So good. The flowers are from…
Read Moreboho zombies
I alluded a couple days ago to having attended the mother of all clothing swaps last weekend, where I scored brand new Nike shoes, TF. The person hosting the swap, a friend of my pal the Ukulady, lives in a fancy-pants house on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. This was a girls-only event, save…
Read Moreflex time
In honor of the two-week anniversary of my hip injury, I shall reprint an amusing Facebook exchange from a couple days ago. I love my friends. By the way, I am feeling better and somewhat optimistic that I will be able be a regular-motion Becky again. Not yet, but soon? I hope? Becky: open letter…
Read Morei’ll take it as a sign
I went to the mother of all clothing swaps last weekend. I will report more about that epic(ly weird) experience, but I need right now to show you what I found at this swap, behind a pile of really ugly sandals. Brand new, in the box. Nike LunarFly+ running shoes. In my size. Retails for…
Read Moretv eye
I haven’t been watching TV pretty much since I’ve moved in with the Elderly Relative almost a year ago. This is only the second time in my life that I have been television-free for a long stretch; the first time was in 1999 for a year when I was moving a lot and had a…
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