I’m a Magpie
So I was in my kitchen this morning, making broth and drying sprouts in the convection oven (look at me! So domestic!), when I realized just how much Xmas loot I was sporting. This year’s haul seriously upped my sartorial awesomeness. Let me show you!
First up, we have the gloves I got from my parents. [...]
I’m getting on a train tonight — 22 hours in a teensey private room with Brian, then Christmas day up in Vancouver with my grandmother, assorted aunts and uncles, and my Thompson cousins. So, until blogging can resume, here’s a little treat I found on Schmutzie’s website:
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So we went and got our Christmas tree the other night.
When we got near the lot, I told Brian, “Stand here and go like this with your hands and I’ll take a picture.”
So he did.
I really wanted to get our tree here, because Obama looks so festive there with all the lights, and because it’s [...]
In all the years we’ve lived in San Francisco, we’ve never had a tree. We always go home for Christmas, we’ve reasoned, so what’s the point? But we’ve missed it, and home is sort of like an electron or whatever — it’s wherever it is when you notice it, but it could very well be [...]
I'm a freelance writer and perpetual graduate student living in San Francisco. Special skills include dog charming, brochure writing, slapdash cooking and long-winded nattering. I also enjoy watching the sunset reflected in the tall buildings downtown.
For a while there, I taught classes on Classical literature, philosophy, and the history of religion at New College of California. I have an MA and an MFA in Writing, and started library school in the fall of 2009.