January 2012
2 posts
Love!
New style blog based on Hunger Games fashion. Looks like Effie Trinket’s costumes alone will be worth the price of admission for that movie.
capitolcouture:
EFFIE TRINKET
HER TRIBUTES AREN’T THE ONLY THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO THIS SEASON.
With a keen eye towards cutting edge trends and a willingness to break boundaries, Capitol-born style icon and District 12 Escort Effie Trinket has...
shades of grey: Section of a reading on... →
adelamaide:
Since no comprehensive
framework has been constructed
within which the discussion could take
place, the analysis has tended either to
For instance, where should agricultural the logical one-sidedness which charac- education come: in the Ministry of Educa- terizes the quoted above…
December 2011
2 posts
June 2010
1 post
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
6 posts
Spring forward...
Looking forward to many things. Among them:
My very favorite candy of all time, Cadbury Mini-Eggs (see above).
An extra hour of daylight every evening, starting Sunday.
Dinners in the treehouse.
Coloring eggs. Admiring them, taking photos of them, and then cracking them open to make a big ol’ batch of egg salad.
Spending spring break with the kidlets — taking walks, watching...
March Forth!!
Thursday is March 4th. Here is a column I wrote a few years ago on this extraordinary “holiday.” Hope you find a way to mark it in a big way. :)
ADVICE FOR TODAY: ‘MARCH FORTH!’
Today isn’t just another Tuesday. It’s not just another work day or school day or sick day or “American Idol” day. Check out the calendar, and consider it an order: ...
February 2010
12 posts
"That doesn't leave you talking about a good...
Jack and his fourth-grade classmates got a visit yesterday from a woman who recently returned from Haiti. She’s a physician’s assistant and worked in hospitals there, helping earthquake victims.
Jack’s teacher had the students journal their thoughts about what she had to say. Here’s what Jack wrote:
“I felt sorry for the people of Haiti and how hard they got hit. One...
Rules for writing...
Oh how I love this entire piece, from The Guardian, on rules for writing.
But these two items, from A.L. Kennedy, especially spoke to me:
Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.
Remember writing doesn’t love you. It doesn’t care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak...
“What I aspire to is nothing more or less than to learn once again — even...”
– Katrina Kenison, from The Gift of an Ordinary Day
WatchMy nephew’s jumprope dance team rocked the house (and the “hotel, motel, Holiday Inn….”) on last night’s “America’s Best Dance Crew.”
Jump! →
My nephew Tyler and his hip-hop jumprope team, Saltare (it means “jump” in Latin), made it past regionals on MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew.” They’re leaving N.C. for Hollywood today to prepare for the national competition.
Keeper
My husband can successfully talk me down from just about any raging tear I’m on. Love that about him. And just generally love him. (Beer also helps.)
“Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it’s not something where – if you...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
January 2010
3 posts
“Real, sane, mature love — the kind that pays the mortgage year after year...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, from “Committed” (Viking, 2010)
December 2009
1 post
November 2009
14 posts
“Editors know that when I send in a column on deadline, I’m going to...”
– Gene Weingarten (The Washington Post)
“To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a...”
– Henry Miller, “Tropic of Cancer”
Ugh...
Somehow linked my Twitter feed to this Tumblr blog, and now I can’t figure out how to undo it. Sometimes I really hate technology.
Dinner = leftover chicken and noodles. I think these things are even better the second day.
“I guess this would be a good time to clean my desk.”
– Me, after arriving at work and realizing the computers weren’t working.
My husband needs to bookmark this. →
McRib Locator. There’s a good use of technology right there.
