Yes, I am still in a whirlwind, but I am embracing the crazy ride I’m on. I can already tell you that my 2011 is a wild, wild wave. I am currently doing a lot of looking in, doing a lot of personal writing. I can’t say how long the void of posts will last; [...]
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whirlwind trappings
Posted in books, creativity, culture, likes, music, projects, reading, television, usa, tagged alice laplante, best little bookshelf in texas, books, corpus librus, grey's anatomy, movies, noise trade, parks & recreation, rupaul's drag race, sleeping at last, television, thao & mirah, the making of a story on May 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
oh, buds on trees!
Posted in home, milestones, music, reading, spring, tagged anthologies, bass drum, broken umbrella, kate bernheimer, marching band, my mother she killed me my father he ate me, pride, spring, umbrella on March 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A couple of days ago, I saw something discarded, stopped, pulled out the camera and took a lot of pictures. I think for some reason I felt just like that umbrella. Maybe you can see what I mean: I am tired of having to think so much about how and how much I can walk. [...]
opera swoll’
Posted in music, yerevan, tagged ana maria martinez, music, opera, placido domingo, puppies, the three tenors, yerevan on December 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
So it turns out Plácido Domingo is a big deal. I had such a great time with Sima Cunningham at Calumet that I started looking back over the month, and I realized that the past month or so has been a feast of Yerevan musical offerings. At our All Volunteer Conference a few weeks ago, [...]
a night in yerevan with miss cunningham
Posted in music, yerevan, tagged armenia, free music, music, reviews, sima cunningham, yerevan on December 15, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The other day I was in Yerevan and met some friends at the city’s bohemian bar, Calumet (“It’s cal-oo-may!” I was told. Excuse me). The floor near the stage was covered in foot high wooden tables and multi-colored bean bag chairs flat and dusty from heavy butt traffic. I found my way onto half a [...]
iranian, mexican, tegan and sara in the city
Posted in armenian artists, food, holiday, music, yerevan on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve written before about how much I love Yerevan sometimes. I was just in Yerevan again and experienced some old and new favorite things: Old: 1. Even though it has only been open a couple of months, and even though I don’t even live in this city, the fact that I’ve eaten at Yerevan’s Taco [...]
the crazies
Posted in armenia, music, sanity, winter on January 17, 2010 | 9 Comments »
I’m learning some things about myself: 1. Adopting a cat and naming her Sanity does not mean I will be more sane. On her first day at my home, I remember I was crawling into bed while she was still running desperately from bedroom to livingroom hoping we’d be staying up and playing more. I [...]
christmas from 6,945 miles away
Posted in holiday, home, music, theatre, tradition on December 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I was sitting in my room, knitting a hand warmer (out of necessity!) and watching the wedding episode of the Office, when my mother called. She wanted to tell me about my sister, about how my mother and she decorated the Christmas tree this year, just the two of them, how my sister took the [...]
