May 2012
1 post
“I am thinking about her always. Thinking of the facts—real words, looks,...”
– C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
This week—the 29th anniversary of her entering this world and the 9th anniversary of her leaving it—I am coping with the on-going, frustrating paradox of grieving my sister: thinking about her ALL THE TIME, and not actually thinking about the real her at...
January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
4 posts
November 2011
2 posts
July 2010
1 post
Cannot express the joy this brings me. Worth... →
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
4 posts
This leaky day calls for a little bit of Lykke Li....
In exactly 3 months, I'll have about 30 miles done... →
April 2010
2 posts
WatchVia LA BLOGOTHEQUE. If you don’t know this amazing website, now you do.
March 2010
4 posts
http://denalirods.com/ →
Does your cousin have his own signature line of casting and spinning fishing rods? Mine does.
The new She and Him record = SPRING. One more...
Street fashion at its finest. →
February 2010
2 posts
“The Museum of Science and Mystery”
– 3 year old cousin Olivia’s preferred name for Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.
January 2010
2 posts
December 2009
1 post
can’t stop listening to this song. so good.
November 2009
8 posts
“What are you thinking about? Talk ABOUT it!”
– Olivia Rue Baty, 3 years old, Thanksgiving 2009
A Decade in Review
Today is the last day of my 20s. Here’s a list of 20 things I did in my 20s:
1) learned how to cook
2) lived in Kenya for a year
3) held a job for longer than 5 years (in MI!)
4) traveled through England, Ireland and Italy
5) learned how to back-country camp
6) organized a first-ever undergraduate conference on gender at the University of Illinois
7) biked topless...
“In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see...”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer, author, Nobel Prize 1978 (via confettiandballoons) (via loveyourchaos)
Just got home from book club, where we discussed The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. Very fitting quote.
October 2009
14 posts
juliasegal:
...
“It’s a truism that people are complicated, multifaceted, contradictory,...”
– Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise (my new favorite book)
September 2009
19 posts
