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beginnings.
Image Credit: Daniel Lobo, Creative Commons We met every Monday to critique the week’s drawings. The afternoon began with the scraping of stools & the scramble to claim wall space for our work....
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facing away from each other
Image Source: Sholeh, Creative Commons What do I mean when I tell you that places make us what we are? There was a time, a very recent time, when someone told me the same thing. I thought the idea was...
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Throwback Thursday: “Cities and Signs”
I often have the blessing of seeing the gold in hindsight. On Thursdays, I’ll feature a piece of my past writing that still speaks to me today. Genius loci can be an elusive, ephemeral understanding...
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place as progression
image source: paulaloe, creative commons This afternoon, I ran through a golden sunset. Always, I follow the same route: past the store, down the hill, around the corner, along the park, and slow to a...
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place and preference
image source: comika.smackjeeves.com We all have places, and types of places, where we feel comfortable. A friend of mine loves airports with all their spacious, streamlined anonymity. I prefer cozy...
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christmas spirit
Nisse & Dala Horse nestled above a window in Koldinghus Museum. Image Source: Author In northern lands of midnight sun, Christmas is a welcome reprieve. When the sun peeks above the horizon for...
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speaking of place
…I am haunted by the feeling that she is saying melting lords of death, avalanches, rivers and moments of passing through. And I am replying, “Yes, yes. Shoes and pudding.” -Jack Gilbert, Say You Love...
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someday I’ll see home
Image Source: MSGV Michael Gil Creative Commons If home is where the heart is than my home is where you are. But it’s getting oh so hard to spend these days without my heart. -Relient K After a...
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“I’ll know it when I see it”
Image Source: Jimmy_Joe, Creative Commons In 8th grade, I learned to navigate by map. As part of the school Speech team, I spent frigid winter Saturdays wandering other communities’ high school...
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writing on walls
In my bag, I keep a tattered hard-bound notebook (think pseudo moleskine) to record interesting quotes I find while reading. In the absence of anything productive to say (for this blog, anyway–I’ve got...
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drawings we have lived
Image Source: Creative Commons KatieThebeau “each one of us should then speak of his roads, his crossroads, his roadside benches; each one of us should make a surveyor’s map of his lost fields and...
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House wife/City wife
Image Source: Lori L. Stalteri, Creative Commons I’m beginning to think that this, homemaking (or at least some version of it), is my purpose. In an earlier time, perhaps it’s all that would have been...
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right makes might
Image Source: Nick Hobgood, Wikimedia Commons Living with no TV & limited internet access has given me plenty of time to read. (Whether I actually *use* all of that time to read is another matter!)...
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mise en place
Image Source: Crystl, Crative Commons I’ve used that same set of blue glass bowls time and again. Lovely. A quarter of my bookcase is devoted to holding cookbooks that I rarely ever use*. I was taught...
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“homestyle” cooking
Image Source: Arnold Gatilao, Creative Commons I have a bottle of schwanky Imported from Italy Extra Virgin Olive Oil sitting on my faded Formica countertop. I used several tablespoons this weekend...
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love, labor, lost
Photo Credit: ed_needs_a_bicycle | creative commons I’ve not felt the need to write for many months. (That’s not entirely true. In June I composed a short series of posts inspired by my weekly 3-hour...
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making it rain
Image: Harini Calamur | cc A broadly engaging courses I’m taking this semester covers the role of natural disasters in urban development and planning. One of the more ‘applicable’ and relevant...
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here
Image: manoj mp | cc It seems to take about a year. From leaving in May of 2010 to Easter-ish 2011 to let go of St. Louis. Ten months to stop listening to endless Jason Boland on Pandora and accept...
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settling
From flickr user Alexander Baxevanis | cc The police chief asked me the other day how I had ended up in Minnesota, after schooling in St. Louis and Illinois. (Aside) The police chief and I talk,...
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trusting the equipment
cc image from flickr user Beth Rankin During college I worked at a ropes course, primarily shepherding upper elementary and middle school campers through obstacles ranging from 6 inches to 40 feet off...
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