So I am not a systems administrator and in fact don’t want to waste any of my precious working hours with the childcare and the headphones and the streaming Netflix to look up how to change Apache to read index.html before index.php in whatever .ini file that little bit hides in, so I have to Read more >>

It’s New Year’s Eve. I don’t have any plans, just people I hope to see tonight. No resolutions, just ideas. I had a good year. I hope you did too, and that the year ahead blows us away with vibrancy and intensity.

It helps to make lists of the stuff we have growing, mostly so I remember to walk around our little property and water everything, but also so I remember to harvest and use it. Black monukka grape (this thing is blowing my mind, it’s been growing in a 2-gal pot in shade for 3 years Read more >>

I trimmed the dead winter twigs from the lavendar and my finger was stabbed, but it was fair This is the difference between a poem and the sting of real life – in a poem I can tell you of the victory the lavendar felt as it wore my blood. Lavendar, if you are listening Read more >>

I’m sitting under the window in the room that used to be my bedroom when I was sixteen. My laptop is propped up on a TV tray and I’m facing the door. When this was my bedroom, I had a blue sofa sitting here that I used as a bed. Why? Because when the sofa Read more >>

We’re in the midst of a terrific snowstorm, real wrath of God type stuff (and while that’s a Ghostbusters quote, the subject of this post comes from our neighbor’s comment on the storm: “I hear today it’s supposed to be bad, but tomorrow it’s supposed to be Biblical”). The ever-watching They have been throwing around Read more >>

If you friend me, I will probably friend you back provided you seem to be human and not pornspam. This is a new policy, as of the beginning of 2009 – until then, I only friended folks I knew at least tangentially. If you friend me on Facebook so that you can then slag off Read more >>

So we have sort of officially launched Pomfolio, and my portfolio is being organically created at http://briannaprivett.com using the String Theory theme and a couple of plugins. I like it, it does what it says on the box. Plus, this is the first time I’ve aggregated all the various stuff I put online in one Read more >>

…was yesterday and we celebrated it well hanging out with friends and listening to old vinyl. Awesome dinner at Holy Molé. Strawberry soda. Conversations.

Sunbeams Originally uploaded by briannaorg I haven’t written anything in nearly three weeks, since our cat was taken ill and subsequently put to sleep, so I figured I’d write a little bit about Fitzgerald here and see if it helps me resume the tenuous writing habit I’d so carefully built up over the last six Read more >>