I took the picture above in my new kitchen in Arizona. The vintage bird nesting tins I got for a steal at a flea market in New York (the one on Avenue A and 10th St., for those of you out there looking). Earlier this month, I saw the full set (there are four; I [...]

It happens at 3:00 AM, a time I saw frequently as a supple young college student, but one that’s about six hours past my bedtime now. The skunks come out. They come out in droves, marching past my bedroom window in small black-and-white armies, determined to disturb my sleep with their putrid scent, hell-bent on [...]

Lake Owen, named for Dan’s great-great grandfather, in Cable, WI.

I’m disaster-fixated: my dreams are filled with tidal waves, earthquakes, creepy unknowable deaths, nuclear fallout, flaming car crashes, hollowed pits, nausea.
I began going in late to my first post-college job after a round of layoffs that left me in a new office, Times Square instead of Rockefeller Center, with a new boss who left insinuating, [...]

The newest member of our small family: Bix, the two-month-old yellow Labrador retriever.

Good Things
+ Swimming in Oak Creek in the shadow of Cathedral Rock
+ Bare feet on hot red rocks
+ .69 cent avocados
+ Meeting a four-day-old baby goat at the Greenmarket yesterday
+ Buying a dozen freshly-laid eggs for $2 from the Greenmarket yesterday
+ Being approved to adopt a yellow Labrador puppy
+ Roadtrip to Phoenix on Monday to [...]