Why Isn't Everyone Talking About Kevin?
I can't stop thinking about the film We Need to Talk About Kevin. I had seen the trailer long before the Oscar picks came out, and had mourned its lack of recognition, even before seeing the movie (which was only just released in Bellingham this weekend). The film was a work of art, to say...
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Charles In Charge
It's a long story, but about two years ago, my husband met a guy named Charles who had started his own organic catering business, just in time to cater our wedding reception. Charles was a one man show for our wedding that September, putting everything together and taking it all down, in an old venue that didn't...
Monday, March 19, 2012
March 19, 2012 - The Third
Anniversary of My Grandmother’s Departure
My maternal grandmother bought me a
manicure kit when I was ten years old to try and get me to stop biting my
fingernails. Her nails were perfect and long and she had pale skin and freckled
hands, hands she would always say looked old, but they never looked old...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Pedestrianism
I
have never had a driver’s license. When I was in high school, I passed driver’s
education, and I’m pretty sure my parents would have gotten me a car (it's what all the kids wait for, right?), but I had...
Monday, March 12, 2012
304 S. Van Buren
There was this little studio apartment in the upstairs portion of a two story house, and from the reading chair in the corner, you could look out the window every morning and see squirrels running on the roof. You lived across the street from an old brick Presbyterian...
Sunday, March 11, 2012
30’s
My husband
turned 33 on Friday. We celebrated by going for pizza and having my parents and
brother and sister-in-law over to our house for an ice cream party. I bought crazy
yellow paper napkins that said “Happy Birthday” on them. We made our own sundaes
with...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Le Chat Noir
Le Chat Noir, otherwise known as The Black Cat, is the coziest
spot for a happy hour date in all of Bellingham. It’s in Fairhaven, in the
Marketplace building, red brick and up flights and flights of stairs, and if
you sit by the window you can see a great view of Fairhaven, and if you’re
lucky, like tonight,...
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Haircuts
Have
you ever cut your own hair (other than that time when you were a kid and stole
the scissors from the drawer in the kitchen when your mom wasn’t looking and
snipped a chunk out of your bangs)? I haven’t...
Why The Descendants Doesn’t Work
The movie is intriguing to me because I enjoy George
Clooney and believe he is more than capable of delivering beautiful
performances (The Ides of March, for instance, was a beauty)....
Winona Forever?
There
was a time when Winona Ryder was so hip, it was almost painful. She was
everywhere and she was in everything, and we were all in love with her. She had
impeccable intuition for choosing roles...
Amtrak
Each
year as winter fades and spring begins to show her face (slowly but surely here
in the state of Washington) I get this crazy itch to ride a train. There is
nothing like a train ride. Traveling across...
Why Jesus Would Dig Karaoke Bars
I’ve always
had this dream that I would find a place and love it and it would love me back.
Last summer I stumbled upon my place, almost by accident, a hidden gem in a
rotting shopping center across the street from the house we...
Pinterest-ing
I hate
myself for being so Pinterest-ed. I worry that Oprah likes it. I don’t actually
want to like it. I struggle with my addiction because I don’t want to be trendy
(it’s actually my worst nightmare), I don’t want to spend the time staring at
the...
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