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The Skull: A Photo Study, Part One

September 14, 2011

This spring we bought a load of composted cow manure from another local farm for use in the market garden. It was beautiful, fluffy, black dirt and we got more than we bargained for. This skull, from what appears to have been a juvenile cow, was among the surprises. This morning I [...]

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The Helplessness

March 9, 2011

My mind sees beautiful things in the world. Breathtaking gorgeousness at every turn. And one of the biggest struggles I have in reconciling what my mind sees with reality is in the complete and utter helplessness I feel in capturing it. Not always, of course. The world is filled with beauty [...]

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Are You a Genius? Or Do You Have One?

March 4, 2011

There’s a Monchichi on my desk and, recently, I’ve begun blaming him for everything. Something I wrote wasn’t witty enough for you? It’s the Monchichi’s fault. That painting I painted looks like a kindergartener teamed up with a Chimpanzee and flung paint at a canvas? Monchichi. That picture [...]

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More NYC BlogHer 10 Photowalk Pictures

August 18, 2010

The Break Dancer wasn’t the only thing I captured during Amie’s first annual (you hear that, Amie? Annual! I’m counting on it!) BlogHer Nighttime Photowalk. And, as promised, the rest of my favorites are here for your voyeuristic pleasure.

We begin, appropriately enough, with Kat — whose blog I would love to link [...]

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On Having a Real Job

May 7, 2010

I have a homeless Uncle. He also, as it so happens, is a writer; of sorts. It makes being a writer a difficult thing for one to embrace, this having of the crazed-homeless-writer-Uncle. (Please, no, ‘I’m so sorry about your Uncle’ business. He’s been homeless as long as I can remember, will continue to be [...]

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Soy Milk, Amish Girls, Bacon and The Obamas

June 24, 2009

I spent all day yesterday in Shipshewana, IN; the heart of Amish Country.  What I expected and what I experienced were two very different things.  Below are a few sage bits of wisdom random, unimportant things I learned observed.
Soy is the devil. What?  You try ordering an iced soy mocha, hold the whipped cream in [...]

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