New Year’s Resolution: Carless in 2012

Jenny on the beach!

On January 2, I drove down to CarMax and sold my trusty car of the last 12 years — a green Nissan Sentra I called Jenny. Incidentally, I bought Jenny from a CarMax …

BOS > EWR > IAHLCH

lake=charles

I’m off to enjoy some much-needed family time down in lovely Lake Charles, LA this week. Here’s to the land of lagniappe, boudin, and Community …

All’s well that ends well

Post-performance tweaking

This week I fulfilled a long-time goal of mine, which was to volun­teer with the group that puts on Shakespeare on the Common every summer here in …

The growing gang…

Scoobs 2011

Back from another lovely week on the Cape. Food was eaten, beaches were explored, sand­cas­tles were built, fire­works were watched, bubbles were chased, s’mores were …

24 hours to go!

Front lawn of the cottage

The annual trek down to the Cape is upon us! I shot three rolls of 120mm film on my Holga last summer, and then heart­lessly allowed …

Hey good lookin’

frontmap

What have I got cooking? I’m so glad you asked. I survived my first semester teaching, in no small part due to the number of evenings spent …

The Tale of Kiddie Katydid

The Tale of Kiddie Katydid

About a year ago I took a little drive with a friend of mine up to New Hampshire. Our goal of visiting a local farmer’s market turned out to be …

A collection of collections

Sweetgifs.com

The students in my web design class are currently working on a project involving collec­tions. They have been tasked with gath­ering 10 – 15 objects or ideas that …

Expansion

Screen shot 2011-02-26 at 6.23.30 PM

There are times in my life when I feel a lot like this scene in Amelie. I call them my Expansion Phases. Two weeks along in my first …

175 Years Ago

Texas Declaration of Independence

In cele­bra­tion of Texas Independence Day, I went looking for our orig­inal currency. Images from Crutchfield’s Currency.

On thinking, making, and being present

In the navy

This week I have been remem­bering my grand­mother, who passed away a year ago on Monday. I began this post shortly after­ward, but never quite found the right …

The benefits of hindsight

Strong Interest Inventory

I’m not sure if this is the case anymore, but when I was in college the career center offered various free apti­tude tests to help its …