Prosaic Paradise

I recently attended a 90s themed party. To this party I was able to wear: an ear cuff with two chains that lead to earrings rolled faded black jeans (new) my high school graduating class t-shirt with sleeves rolled up (designed by Andrew Burger, as I recall) green Docs I bought on a high school […]

Monday I went and picked up my books, student ID, and stuff at Howard Community College. Going there makes me feel a little bit more like I am “going back to school” than going to the Laurel College Center did, although it all boils down to the same thing. It’s like a real campus! With […]

Jack graciously took me on a neighborhood walk tonight when I arrived home to put some use to the camera. Unfortunately it started snowing too hard for me to feel comfortable setting up the tripod and I don’t have weather gear, but before that happened I caught this. I made it to and from work […]

The Philadelphia pen show was all that I could have hoped for! In addition to the pens as far as the eye could see, I found that pen show folks are very friendly and colorful and most importantly welcoming to newbies. After lunch at local watering hole Tir Na Nog (very tasty), my friends and […]

Last night we ventured into Baltimore to meet some friends and soak up local dining experiences. We failed to get into two restaurants before we finally settled on Sauté (note to them: um, get a website). I was overjoyed because they had scallops galore, and one thing that drives me nuts about Top Chef is […]

We’ve all received them. Many of us have probably given them. The cute thematic items that remind us of our friends, even though they don’t have an ostensible use or their ostensible use is… questionable. (My shame: pet breed themed items. I like to give them.) Jack has graciously allowed me to use a novelty […]

So I was pilling the cat with Jack tonight (Baytril, for his respiratory infection) and it was all stressful, like it usually is. After we got the pill down, which he spit out three times, he wandered over to the food bowl, pulled at his face, freaked out, and dropped a tooth, root and all, […]

I am trying to be inspired by all my friends’ outpourings of excitement and hope of the past day. But I think after 8 years of disappointment and being disturbed by the news all the time, my hope organ is malfunctioning. I still know half the country didn’t vote for our president, and it’s not […]

One day last year we were driving around our home stomping grounds when what should confront our delicate senses but a giant ass. A giant ass mural on the side of a building. I suppose there was some initial … relief?… that it was a giant baby ass hovering over cowboy boots in that “oh […]

I stumbled into a great pen the other day, thanks to amazing happenstance and Jack’s quick mind for trivia. Sometimes we attend a weekly social event (called Tea) wherein there is a trivia prize, and this week I walked in all full of pen talk and our friend David and I were merrily talking pens, […]