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Incongruity

A holdout from the old days

I’m working in downtown D.C. again, and I love wandering the streets of the city and exploring.

I came across this building a few months ago, an old holdout almost swallowed up by the new high rise building engulfing it.

I wonder what its story is.

Was this building so [...]

Handwritten journals and deliberate writing

My leather-covered journal at the start of its life.

I’ve always been fascinated by journals and diaries. I wrote often in journals during my childhood and adolescence, but I stopped writing in a physical journal for a long time during my adulthood, preferring the ease of typing my thoughts on a computer with a [...]

ISO the perfect dress

remix 20.10.08 by et sans, on Flickr

I usually find shopping exhausting, but there’s a special kind of tiredness associated with searching the stores for a dress to wear to a wedding.

My criteria:
It has to be slightly nicer than what I would wear to a non-casual office, but also not too businessy or bridesmaidy [...]

Percolating

I remember the old metal percolator that my Mom used to make coffee when I was a kid, before the days of the automatic coffee machine. I liked to watch the coffee bounce up into the hollow glass knob on the lid when it was hot and, well, percolating.

But tonight I’m remembering a different [...]

Getting started is the hardest part

An empty blog is like a fresh, clean piece of paper. It’s so pristine in its newness that I have a difficult time writing on it. What can I write that won’t detract from its state of unspoiled perfection?

There, I’ve messed it up a bit. It will be easier to write now. Get [...]