Prosaic Paradise

At one point last weekend during dinner I said: “I don’t want to be too high-maintenance [for the waiter] by replacing salmon with tuna.” And Megan said two of the potentially most productive words in the english language to me: “Shut up.” It wasn’t rude. It was friendly. It was a favor. All weekend I […]

When I walked in the door from BlogHer the first thing that greeted me was not my loving, angry, stupid cats, but a flyer from the city informing me that there would be a council meeting the next day about our very own street. So tonight I zipped on down there (in my flip flops […]

All the way out to BlogHer, I was thinking, why I am I going here? All during BlogHer I thought, why do I blog? And in the aftermath of BlogHer I keep thinking, when can I write? It was an idea that Genie put in my head, since I do enjoy blogging and over the […]

I am sitting in between three or four lists right now. A to-do list I didn’t complete last weekend, a packing list for BlogHer, a to-do list I wrote last night, and a shopping list with almost everything checked off. I don’t even know which one to look at right now. Thank goodness my exam […]

I’m about to show you just how ridiculous it can be to be me. Pen bloggers, at least, will understand… I hope… About a week ago, the Office Supply Geek posted a fabulous highlighter refilling tutorial which reminded me that I have been saving up a post about highlighters for a while now. This is […]

I can’t listen to all of them in two weeks of trying. I’m on 180 and I’ve done an awful lot of skipping. I owe someone a debt of gratitude for turning me on to Twilight Guardians via their amusing La Isla Bonita cover. This is my kind of music.The cover is just OK. I […]

So ever since Genie passively talked me into signing up to go to BlogHer*, I have been somewhat in denial of what the whole thing will be like. I have been somewhat in denial of the whole thing, based on the fact that I keep telling myself I can’t think about it until then end […]

I seem to be getting both in equal measure, but that still means I’m having success. This week I signed myself up for a photography workshop led by Me Ra Koh. I knew as soon as I saw the announcement on her web site that she was coming to DC, that I was going to […]

Yes, around here our 4th of July comes with tiki skulls, but that is A-OK with us. Our generous and gracious hostess and her birthdaying hubby had a pretty grand repaste prepared for everyone and I had a whole mess of fun, though I was being kind of a weirdo and largely taking photos. And […]

I need to thank Genie for helping me with my current blog constipation, because I simply can’t deny her when she posts her Living Out Loud projects. (Well, when the assignment was a video, I could, apparently! Sorry about that. Someday I may get to that.) This month we have the topic of home. I […]