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Feb 8, 2012, 10:23 pm
The Nickel Diner. Because you'll want to go.
The 5th & Main is what I'd recommend. I'm the first to admit this tastes a bazillion times better than this photo would lead you to believe.
Maybe a gazillion.
You can hit the mean streets afterwards and go on an urban... Comment - Like
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Feb 8, 2012, 12:47 am
scenes from mary ann & carol's next excellent adventure!
guess.
here. have a maple bacon donut while you ponder.
go get a fork & knife. you'll need it! Comment - Like
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Feb 5, 2012, 9:03 pm
1. ate maple bacon donut. with pulled pork hash. at one of the 20 breakfast places i spoke of yesterday. {more on this later!}
2. added more photos to travel journal
3. stared at stolen kiss who is blooming right now. she blooms dark in winter, light in summer.
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Feb 4, 2012, 5:01 pm
I posted an article on facebook last week about 20 breakfast places to try in LA. My friend Lewis & I decided to start knocking them off. One by one.
except...i don't think this one was on the list. oh well. we added it. took these with my crappity crap camera and drew on them w... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2012, 12:24 pm
"good mornin' sunshine" My dearly departed pop used to say that to me. I was always the last moss out of bed. Roused too early. Still filled with sleep. Disheveled. Dazed. He whispered it to me this morning, but I was already fully awake. It's the weekend. I shouldn't be THIS excited about it, but... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2012, 5:55 pm
as much as i am adoring instagram and all the other fun camera apps on my ipad, my favorite kind of photo in my travel journal remains the unadorned. simple. clear. just a small bit of brightening if it's needed. no major overhauls.
no filters or textures to muddle up the image as i ... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 9:52 pm
today i endeavored to unfunk myself. wake myself up. i've been comatose these last weeks of january. sluggish thoughts turning over in my winterbrain.
i put on some coffee when i got home. did NOT take a nap. thought instead about the neglected kingdom of my little studio. a... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 9:44 pm
I made this crock pot chicken pot pie. I recommend you make it if:
A. you hate yourself
B. you hate a friend and want to get back at them for something
otherwise. just don't.
iPad scribbles! done with sketchbook pro app for ipad.
good messy fun. the o... Comment - Like
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Jan 29, 2012, 9:42 pm
slow going in the travel journal. i seem to be more interested in reading travel books, playing words with friends, watching irish thrillers on IFC, and gearing up for an evening spent at DOWNTON ABBEY. also i made chicken pot pie in my crockpot. also i did more doodling & coloring on the ip... Comment - Like
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Jan 29, 2012, 12:52 am
this morning i went to the licuado shop on york here in highland park.
breakfast was calling me.
i've been wanting to try this little shop for awhile. i decided to try something i knew how to translate. which was numero 4.
the lady behind the counter whipped my strawberries... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 6:56 pm
catboy & catgirl are snoring away on the couch. i'm doodling on my ipad. watchoodoin? Comment - Like
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Jan 22, 2012, 7:34 pm
i am extremely persnickety & miserly when it comes to art books. this one is unputdownable!
which. is why i endeavored to sit at the kitchen table in the sunlight, drinking coffee with the slider open, reading every word, poring over the photos. today. hello sunday.
new fl... Comment - Like
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Jan 21, 2012, 12:43 am
the streets were filled with sparkly sunbeams as i drove home to start my 48 hour vacation.
the porch was all golden and full of promise.
a halo of light spread out over the roof of my little cottage on the little hill in the middle of the big metropolis.
home to roost. home to a lo... Comment - Like
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Jan 18, 2012, 8:11 pm
here. a small sliver of poem. to go with the glimpses into my travel journal.
taken from New Years by Dana Gioia
because sometimes i like the little bites better than the whole piece.
But can this blur, this smudgy in-between,This tiny fissure where the future dripsInto the pa... Comment - Like
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Jan 16, 2012, 8:42 pm
feeling a lot of this...
because i'm working in this...
oh joy!
still stumbling around in the dark on facebook with my friend beavis. if you have any tips i know you'll share them. like for example do you put all of your blog posts there automatically? hmmmm...
thanks laura... Comment - Like
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Jan 16, 2012, 3:38 am
thing #1: i started a facebook page.
wait. i mean i TRIED to start a page vs. a personal profile or whatever but my efforts met with failure.
so i had to go the personal route. my friend beavis was doing it.
highly intelligent conversation snippets between b... Comment - Like
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Jan 15, 2012, 10:38 am
I mulled over my list all week and added new things every day. brimming with big ideas. that's me.
...to do before i turn 50
1. learn how to crochet
2. rent a tandem bike and ride along the boardwalk with sister
3. ride in a helicopter or little plane
4. make an ... Comment - Like
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Jan 14, 2012, 8:20 pm
5 Years In 5 Minutes from MAM on Vimeo.
5 years. 1500 photo booth photos. i have no good explanation for this. except to say... i send my sister LOTS of pics.
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Jan 11, 2012, 9:36 pm
there is an inverse relationship between my enthusiasm for playing WORDS WITH FRIENDS and my skill at said game.
if you are one of the unfortunate scrabble playing souls who has gotten stuck in a game with me.
i'm. sorry.
i know it's like playing with a 6 year old.
a kind frien... Comment - Like
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Jan 9, 2012, 8:24 pm
It's officially official. I'm not a little 48 year old anymore!
I'm a 49 year old! My sister was visiting this weekend and gave me this vintage-look book cover case for my iPad. I loves it! If you have an iPad you know how slippery they are. I've already dropped mine twice. There are mo... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2011, 10:28 pm
Oh hi! It's me.
With a little dispatch from the road.
Motoring up the Ventura Highway with the music on high and the windows down. Singing my head off. Hand surfing out the window.
I stopped unexpectedly to stalk some migratory monarchs. They'... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2011, 8:56 pm
In between travel journal shots I'll share photos of where I'm headed this weekend.
Off for a couple of days seaside. I love the wild central and northern California coastline. I've missed it.
And I relish the long drive through autumn hills.
Looking forwar... Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2011, 6:08 pm
bottom left photo is the apartment courtyard of my homebase in budapest this summer.
while i'm away i focus on writing & collage in the journal. some days i DO NOT feel like making the time for it. but i do it anyway and am always glad i put in the effort.
i l... Comment - Like
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Oct 23, 2011, 12:27 am
it's officially official. i am 100% finished with my travel journal.
and for your information, finishing has been extremely agreeable. and so is this passage from At Seventy by May Sarton...
"It is a pleasure to be with someone who says that the eighties are her h... Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2011, 11:41 pm
hello! i photographed my entire travel journal this week. i'll be posting the whole thing in the next week. the full monty. if i wasn't moonlighting by day as a monkey whisperer i might be more productive. i might have wrapped things up by now.
but well...i haven't.
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Oct 18, 2011, 9:04 am
Anderson Cooper had a special report on bullying, did you see it? So sad! That program led me to this new documentary coming in March of 2012. Too bad being different means being endangered for so many kids. I was especially heartbroken over the bullying of Alex Hopkins, the young man ... Comment - Like
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Oct 16, 2011, 5:09 pm
After school on Friday I headed east into downtown. Was feeling moody and contemplative. Eager to begin the weekend. Already looking for some small adventure in which to lose {or find} myself.
I drove through these streets and absorbed their peculiarities. Gathered... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2011, 7:28 pm
click, then click again to see him up close and personal. so cool!
a new friend has come to moss cottage. he was perched on a chair on the back patio this morning.
i keep going outside to look for him. he stays in the same place for a loooong time so he is easy to f... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2011, 9:14 am
I left school yesterday and my internal compass pointed me towards Auntie Em's.
I thought about the bread pudding, whoopie pies, and other delicacies, but settled on the red velvet cupcake.
A cliche I know, but some cliches shouldn't be abandoned.
Thi... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2011, 11:42 pm
I'm 98% finished putting photos in my travel journal. I somehow squeezed so many between the pages. I'm looking forward to turning my attention towards my visual journal and a few other crafty ideas I've got brewing. I wish I could multi-task, but alas I am unable.
Though when I c... Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2011, 11:42 am
I bought my first computer in 1997. It was used, a Macintosh. About 5 years old. I think I paid a few hundred bucks for it. Over the years I upgraded many times, each time buying a used Mac. Finally in 2005 or so I got my first brand new computer- the IMac. Steve Job's Think Differ... Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2011, 12:42 am
a rare storm on wednesday. our first rain of the season.
small rivers formed in the streets. every surface became beaded with water droplets.
small glittering domes covered every leaf and petal.
i grabbed my macro lens
and went outsid... Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2011, 7:54 pm
tomatoes + plums + mozzarella
a final warm day before storm clouds gathered.
let's eat outside.
with a big glass of fizzy elderflower soda. whadda ya say?
~
my cute friend judy wise is offering this online class:
i haven't taken it and i d... Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2011, 6:10 pm
some pics from Heart & Home
there are so many online magazines now. i thought this one from the uk was especially good. looks really fab if you expand as big as you can. there's an ipad version HERE.
i saw a small wallpaper covered canvas that got m... Comment - Like
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Oct 2, 2011, 6:03 pm
hey you.
we're just lounging around thinking BIG october thoughts under the blue dome of sky.
running errands in the neighborhood that happened to take me by here.
and here:
someone was in the exact same position when i returned. maybe his ta... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2011, 11:56 pm
2 more inspiring auditions that I watched 3 or 4 times each. More X-factor love. What can I say?
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Sep 30, 2011, 10:57 pm
it figures that the second i wrote that the 2nd grade punks were shaping up, they all started sharpening their tiny fangs, hissing, spitting, cursing, writing nasty notes, making animal noises, blowing imaginary trumpets (loud), plugging their ears, and growling.
aw well. 1 step forw... Comment - Like
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Sep 29, 2011, 6:47 pm
are you watching the x factor? did you see the burrito slinger fellow sing etta james' at last last night? did you rewind and watch it over a few times like i did?
so good!
i love it when hapless people wander onto the stage and turn out to be ... Comment - Like
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Sep 25, 2011, 10:17 pm
A special someone sent me a whole package of tiny vintage postcards from Budapest. I'm using them as tabs on some pages. I'll add some writing to this one later.
If you're in the FTB class, I made this journal kind of the way I made my Inspiration Journal. Also like the Hid... Comment - Like
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Sep 23, 2011, 11:03 pm
Friday. A day set aside for rejoicing. Instead of thinking about the 312 things I have to do back at school on Monday, I came home and read a poem.
I thought about how I watched this flower open in the dark on Thursday night. While I stood out back shining my flashlight o... Comment - Like
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Sep 20, 2011, 9:00 am
This 7 x 11.5 travel journal is larger than my others. Some of the pages are covered with writing and nothing else.
Sometimes I like the contrast of an all-photo page next to a page of all writing. The strange b&w rose postcard is a vintage find from the Esceri flea market. It was so... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2011, 9:07 pm
In Budapest I kept finding street stickers. I unstuck them from whatever surface they were on and restuck them in my journal.
I'm still adding photos & flea market finds to my pages. Working at a snail's pace!
I pulled a wheatpasted street poster down on my first Budape... Comment - Like
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Sep 13, 2011, 6:31 pm
After spending the day with 29 (the number grows bigger each day) basic trainees it's really a relief to come home and sit quietly out back. Reflecting on what worked & what didn't. Thinking of how to do better tomorrow. Having a much larger class creates a buzzing humming beehive of a c... Comment - Like
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Sep 11, 2011, 9:17 am
In memory of dearly departed Buck Moss a fence is being built around the perimeter of Moss Cottage. Will be finished in a few days. I strongly regret not doing it a long time ago. A big dog or coyote can scale it if they really want to, but it affords some sense of protection and securit... Comment - Like
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Sep 10, 2011, 1:42 pm
bootcamp. basic training.
the little newbie 2nd grade punks still have their milk teeth.
after 16 years the new recruits haven't gotten easier to train.
most human beings, even the wee ones, are not amenable to being herded.
and you know, trying to... Comment - Like
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