The year I read 89 books (about 30 of which are probably thanks to my last semester of prep school and first semester at Smith), I read all of Salinger’s works in a couple of weeks, save for The Catcher in the Rye, which was required HS reading. Franny and Zooey made my “Favorite books [...]

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The web and world of print aren’t lacking in optimistic articles that advise forgetting 2009 and looking forward to 2010. Well, I’ll jump on the bandwagon for the second half of that (forget 2009? how about we all just learn from it instead?) After I wrote the last post on my 2009 health challenges, I [...]

Categories: Artsy/Crafty · Life

In the pep talks that I give to myself when I am ill, which has unfortunately been a substantial chunk of the last 5 years, and basically ALL of this past year, I try to remember that familiar feel-good saying, “every cloud has a silver lining.” I’m not sure it’s even known who said these [...]

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Do you know about Safety Cone Adventures? What about Park(ing) Day? Well, if not, you soon will. Below is an email I sent to friends about the converging of these two endeavors:
I rarely mass-email, but Safety Cone is an exception to many rules, so here goes. If you keep up with my crafty-head-self at all, [...]

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I have been doing a lot of things/visiting a lot of places that have long been on to-do/to-visit lists, either on paper, in a text file somewhere or just floating around in my mind. Here is an August smattering of such things:
I went to Westport, Connecticut for a long weekend, where my aunts from Pittsburgh [...]

Categories: Artsy/Crafty · Foodage · Life

Wow, it has been two months since I did a little photo-and-verbal check-in about my garden; I can successfully report however that I am up to 29 grape tomatoes and 4 cucumbers harvested, edible nasturtium flowers, countless palm-fuls of herbs used for pestos and vase displays, and even a simulated mini-lily pad pond I came [...]

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