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I have a stomach ache. It’s ruining my ability to write.

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This weekend, we spent Sunday in an ideal way: walking through the market buying produce for the week, drinking coffee from Cafe Fiore (as I’ve mentioned before … hands down the BEST coffee in the city!) and perusing the wares of Ballard. We even ran into some old friends we hadn’t seen in years. It’s [...]

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detroit skyline, originally uploaded by ryan.s o u t h e n.photography.

The husband and I have been having an ongoing conversation (for many years) about Detroit, from its rich history to the continuing saga of its present. It’s a conversation that ultimately leads to the topic of resurgence and more importantly if that can ever [...]

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It’s the small things. Though this weekend has been less than ideal, ending with conflict and drama, it takes a mere moment with the boy to refocus. He’s the biggest small thing of all, after all. We’re looking towards celebrating his first year outside the belly in just a couple of weeks. It’s been the [...]

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Sheesh! No posts in February at all? That’s kind of sad. You’d think we up and went to Hawaii for weeks. We’ve been gone so long that I need to upgrade Wordpress again. Criminy.There are ?Ǭ†so many things to talk about: Kona, Jager Bombs (done by someone about to turn 80), humpback whales, post-partum depression, [...]

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So, I have many friends who are devoted fans of Neil Gaiman (and I mean that in a Morrisey of the literary world kind of way). It’s not that I wasn’t interested in the Sandman novels or any of his other work, it was more that it just never surfaced to the top of my [...]

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Some days, it’s really good to be a dog. It’s not too shabby being a dog owner either … especially when you have Marymoor Park a quick drive away to enjoy a little Sunday morning sunshine while the dogs enjoy some free range frolicking.

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This theme is so simple, but let it serve as the one spot in my life that is seemingly simple right now. At a time when the focus is supposed to be on remaining as stress free as possible, I’m failing miserably at it. Relationships both professional and personal are all suffering at the moment. [...]

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Another weekend gone, another week we’ve collected (we’re collecting weeks now). We had the usual breakfast with friends, coffee and went to see The Curse of the Golden Flower. While my sister said she hated it, I really enjoyed it. It seemed to be a return to the style of Zhang Yimou’s earlier films. It [...]

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Ubiquitous seems incorrect for something that hasn’t been anywhere, much less everywhere.
Where does the time go? As I sit here working just so that my Monday doesn’t start with a migraine, it’s beginning to occur to me I may have taken a step backwards. The world of advertising sounds exciting, but in reality is exhausting. [...]

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A post which serves as an umbrella for many random bits.
High Tension was fantastic! While it was a little predictable at times, it was done in such a stylish, well thought out way that it was hard not to buy into the … well, tension. The commentary from the directors say that they don’t consider [...]

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It’s Sunday. Home is the best place ever.
In the past several weeks there have been trips to the northern California coast, to Detroit and to the Washington coast for a wedding. It would still be an understatement to say that home is a welcome relief from hotel sheets, muggy weather and airports.
There has been little [...]

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Missing in action, and I don’t mean that in a Arular kind of way.
In a nutshell, I have been possessed by a new book (a first novel, no less) from Elizabeth Kostova called The Historian. There is nothing I love more than a book that makes me curse having to perform everyday tasks because it [...]

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It’s not really Sunday, but that’s the beauty of backdating posts. And to think, H.G. Wells went through all of that trouble.
How about a weekend update which provides a double whammy (a prize to anyone who got that cheesy game show reference) of music AND film. Say it with me fil-l-l-l-m.
Saturday was the Sasquatch Music [...]

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If all else fails, at least you can always rely on the weekly Sunday night post.
For all of you non-Seattleites, I’ll indulge your ideas of the rain drenched Northwest. The rain has been coming down for several hours now. It’s of the maximum density, plop-plop variety and currently I can almost see the grass growing. [...]

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What a nice weekend it has been. Shortly before the weekend begins, I am inevitably faced with the usual staple of office chit-chat, “What are you doing this weekend?” (Outnumbered only by the ever popular Monday query “What did you do this weekend?”) And sometimes I have an elaborate plan. Other times, I just [...]

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One of many efforts I am dedicating myself to is more frequent updating to the site now that I’m all settled in and comfortable. Don’t you just love that new website smell? There are reasons that I haven’t been updating as often as I’d like. One of those reasons is a need for introspection. I [...]

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there has been some crappy news lately (in fact, a revision to the end of year survey i took in a previous post. someone did die). and just today a little more bad news. but i am choosing to pretend that didn’t happen to focus on the lazy, present-laden Christmas we just spent with my [...]

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as the end of the year draws to a close, i start to feel the need to sum up what i’ve digested and expelled. it’s more selfish than anything else and allows me to make the yearly promise to listen more, read more and write more in 2005.

out of the hundreds of movies released in [...]

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despite not accomplishing the painting task … again … this weekend was ideal. friday night, we had sushi at Kisako where the fish is always very, very fresh. for once, i was tempted to order some espresso mochi for desert but the service was so slow we decided to pass. instead we stopped at my [...]

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