SMALLER THINGS

Elephants Never Forget.

June 30, 2011

My mother got into town about a week ago, and it has been grand. My Uncle Al and Aunt Mo—two of my very favorite people in the world—drove from North Dakota for a visit last weekend, and all was impossibly raucous card playing and brisket making and drink quaffing, and my mother dug out and [...]

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Greth Becomes Her.

May 31, 2011

In Zug, not far from where my mother lives, there is a statue of a woman bent under the weight of a Basket Full of Fool. Here: It’s a statue of Greth Schell—as the legend goes, her husband made a habit of going out of an evening and pickling himself at the local Inn, and [...]

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No.

May 13, 2011

We didn’t get the apartment. It’s too early to break out my new absinthe, especially as I have a busy day ahead of me and I’m pretty sure absinthe consumption would negatively impact productivity what with the tulips on my legs, so I am trying gamely to console myself with something else I brought back [...]

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Schoolgirl Crush

May 12, 2011

I’m going to put up some more Paris pictures tonight or in the morning (you guys, I have SO MANY PICTURES. And SO MANY STORIES.) but I also wanted to give you a non-Paris Re-entry Update, and I’d like to keep the Alexa Abroad! bits segregated so I can put it in a link-y category [...]

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Statuesque

April 29, 2011

I wonder if people who live in Paris walk around all day saying “Mon Dieu! What a beautiful city! How it fills me with joie de vivre and I don’t know what!” Probably they do. Or maybe their feet hurt too much. (I have the worst case of Cobblestone Foot in recorded history. I am [...]

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It Didn’t Got Build in One Day, You Know.

March 15, 2011

I honestly thought that today I would finish the post I’ve been working on (understanding, naturally, that by “working on” I mostly mean “thinking about while lying laying reclining in bed at night/loading the dishwasher/driving places.” But it is a tricky one, and that is probably why I chose instead to procrastinate by fiddling with [...]

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0, 1, 2, 3.

February 8, 2011

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UPDATED Parade! (Magazine, not “of Ailments.”)

January 23, 2011

As a kind reader helpfully reminded me in the comments of my newest post, I forgot to mention that I have an essay in today’s PARADE Magazine, which may well be slipped between the folds of your newspaper right at this very moment. Quick, run and check! It looks like this: I am this week’s [...]

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Fridtsam.

December 3, 2010

So, here are some links to things! Some of these I have been meaning to post for ages. They weren’t enough to constitute entries on their own, so they loitered in a folder, waiting for their time in the sun. That time is now, when I have decided to allow myself to publish un-posts once [...]

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Not Worth the Wait.

December 1, 2010

Less than an hour ago, I had decided not to post today after all. I had good reasons, too—plenty of them: 1. It was 11 o’ clock, which is practically midnight. 2. I haven’t finished the redesign. I’m still busy massaging my curly brackets (though the lovely header image created by the lovely ladies at [...]

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