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I regret not knowing who I was sooner.

Tonight I am once again packing up my life, fighting through waves of nostalgia and sentimentality to trim myself down, start again. No soft edges, no regrets ( Read more... )

Someone slashed Morgan's tire so I took off work early yesterday and we went to Walmart to have it changed. We wandered all over the place looking and talking and looking, at decorative lemons and stuffed bumblebees and turquoise frying pans and fleece blankets and plaid shirts and floor lamps and car accessories. We smelled all the candles and ( Read more... )

This is where I live online lately:

designspongeonline.com
apartmenttherapy.com
effingdykes.blogspot.com
ask.metafilter.com
jezebel.com
afterellen.com

After work last night Morgan and I came home and painted for three hours at the kitchen table while Ollie played with his toys and slept at our feet. We're working on some pieces for a charity auction her sister is involved with. I also experimented with making flowers from this beautiful sheet of hand-made paper with dried blossoms pressed into it ( Read more... )

Lately I've been obsessed with tiny pearl necklaces:


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I am blissfully happy this morning. My soul has been filled with massive reserves of happiness by the extraordinarily pleasant experience of lying in bed cuddling with my love and our new puppy, as he licks our faces and sneezes and curls up in the crooks of our arms. And the air outside is turning chilly, and the sky as sunrise hits it is that ( Read more... )

I am so thankful for the wind outside, and the sunshine, and the way small beads of sweat pool nevertheless on my neck. I love the way carpet feels under my bare feet and sitting on my balcony looking over the hills in a faded leather armchair. It seems to me that everything I used to know was another life, and I am born again. I am beginning to ( Read more... )

Yesterday was just the nicest day. It was my favorite kind of weather - chilly in the morning with the promise of warmth, then windy sunshine, then slowly fading out into the kind of cool where you sit on your porch with a sweater and socks. I went grocery shopping after work and talked to a nice woman about sodium, then took pleasure in putting ( Read more... )