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So, I leave for New York tomorrow. I’ll be back Monday. It was sort of last minute, in the sense that I knew two months ago that I would probably have to go, but I didn’t want to think about it so soon after getting back from Greece. The very idea of getting on a [...]

I discovered this site about two weeks after I’d collected a series of sticky notes of Josh-isms. I do this every so often - I can’t devote my life to taking Josh-dictation, because I’d never get a chance to sleep. But occasionally, I’ll spend a few days marking down some of the choice phrases.
Then I [...]

It was gorgeous today. We didn’t fall asleep until after sunrise, and then not for long. I had a guitar lesson today. My fingers are still tingling. I have been eating mostly apples and drinking mostly hot chocolate. We went to Long Beach on Friday. Josh got to see the bookstore for the first time. [...]

A man blowing smoke through a saxophone, a hill of faces, smiling.

A scottish terrier.

A big box was waiting for me at the front door the other day. I opened it up (it weighed nearly nothing) to discover all the little costume novelties that I’d ordered a few weeks before for a photo shoot I’m setting up. Fortuitously, my goddaughter and her dad stopped by that night and Allea [...]

Moroccan arches, enormous rabbits, three rivers. The arches are marvelously detailed.

A stick of butter.
A quarter cup of flour.
Two pounds of top sirloin steak.
Three cans of beef broth.
Beer.
Dried basil.
Salt & pepper.
Russet potatoes.
Many cloves of garlic.
Some celery’s in there, including the leaves, that’s very important. Most of the good salty, celery taste is in the leaves.
One red onion and one vidalia onion. The big ones are sweeter.
Wine. [...]

A sea of letters in three alphabets. A large A, a small wriggly vita. They swim and dance. I keep almost thinking I can see my name.

One (1) tube Ivory Black oil paint
Flash for Kodak Duaflex
41 pieces of unopened mail to be filed
A Tupperware container full of seed packets
A watercolor sketchbook
Rhinestone hair cliip
iPod nano
Greek children’s book
8 sheets of scribbled upon paper
One (1) empty teacup
A brown watch
Pair of earrings
Black onyx chess piece (pawn)
Cordless phone handset
One (1) US penny
3 hair ties
2 USB cables
1 [...]