January 2011
36 posts
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C'mere, 2011, and gimme a hug
Change is hard to see day to day, week to week. But look at your month, year, two years: the heap of what you’ve accomplished, the relationships you’ve gained and the ones you severed and cleared away. Compile, quickly, the things you’ve done in 2010. Not just done, but experienced; not just experienced, but thought. Do you know more about yourself than you did at the start? (The...
Jan 1st
December 2010
32 posts
  I asked how you can ever be sure  that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can’t you can’t you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don’t write —excerpt from Berryman by W.S. Merwin. “I went to see Ezra Pound when I was nineteen or so. He told me something that I think I...
Dec 31st
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Dec 29th
Finding a sugar daddy to pay for my fillings seems counter-productive.
Dec 29th
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“Wanna know what I wished for? A cute little puppy to beckon me to a piece of...”
– Elle’s 11:11 wish
Dec 28th
Dec 26th
The best thing
is knowing that you can. You can, you can, you can, you will.
Dec 25th
“As much as it’s symbolic meaning has been a secret in the past, I would...”
– Jens Lekman (on his engraved keys)
Dec 25th
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Dec 22nd
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“I have a hard time sitting still through that unless I’m inebriated.”
– Mom on White Christmas
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
Last week I sat next to a child being quizzed on vocabulary words I couldn’t define, a ten-year-old explaining how oscillate and vacillate differed while I turned my screen away and looked up the meanings. He was scrawling out solutions to math problems with a pencil and I thought about how long it had been since I felt the seize of self-consciousness getting up to sharpen one of those. I...
Dec 18th
ListenCat Stevens—Don’t Be Shy I want to...
Dec 18th
A Lady Walking Down the Street Eating a Candy Bar
The lady is me; the candy bar is a Milky Way purchased from Goodwill.
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
“Every time a black cat crosses my path I try to send it a ray of warmth and...”
– Jesse
Dec 16th
Dec 15th
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ListenVince Guaraldi Trio—O Tannenbaum Getting...
Dec 14th
“There should be a twelve-step program so I can apologize to all the people...”
– Elle
Dec 13th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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National Geographic spines
Space Rendezvous Slime Mold Ship Book Sherpa School Moon Robots
Dec 10th
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ListenJohn Lennon—Oh Yoko!
Dec 9th
“Good on you and Elle for setting up camp in Seattle like it was no big deal! Few...”
– Thanks Nick
Dec 7th
“One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things...”
– Tobias Wolff
Dec 6th
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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This Is Just To Say, Erica-Lynn Gambino (for...
I have just asked you to get out of my apartment  even though you never thought I would Forgive me you were driving me insane 
Dec 2nd
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I am undoubtedly going to be an old woman who mutters to herself in public.
Dec 2nd
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Should’ve seen my eyes when I saw this book today. It was like falling in love. Ooh boy.
Dec 2nd