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. [...]
healing
Posted in food, reading, usa, tagged ann patchett, bel canto, cadbury cream egg, peace corps, peace corps volunteers on March 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I have never concentrated so hard on walking. The brace is off as of today. My shrimpy little leg with the still swollen knee is free like a wobbly newborn calf. Walking from the hotel to CVS, from the Kennedy Center to Georgetown, I almost yell down at my leg, “CONCENTRATE!” Left, right, left, right, [...]
i’d like to stay alive in the woods
Posted in reading, tagged adventure, adventure travel, appalachian trail, bradford angier, catching frogs, hiking, how to stay alive in the woods, travel on March 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I am an undisciplined soul. I have a lot of free time, and as you have seen, I haven’t been writing much. Instead I’ve been binging on entertainment. I am admittedly a pop culture junkie, and here in the land of plenty I have been feasting on such wild delicacies as How I Met Your [...]
2009makers
Posted in armenia, friends, holiday, home, india, panama, peace corps volunteers, reading, slum, tradition, travel on January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tell me you forgot that I said I’d post a bunch of lists about the decade and the year and resolutions, etc. I still may post some of them, but a bunch of lists are not really on the way. However, what is on the way, in just a few sentences actually, is a list [...]
The incredibly-cold is coming.
Posted in armenia, cold, hayeren, reading, tea on December 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In the morning I usually walk to work, a routine activity that has become a more frigid exprience with each passing day. It is no longer sufficient to wear my knit gloves and stuff those covered hands in my pockets. They are still cold under all those layers. I certainly don‘t live in the coldest [...]
