[The porch next door.] You can choose how close---or how separated---you are with your neighbors. That's the funny thing about living in a place like the Fan: win, lose, or draw, your neighbors define your living experience. [Lenny, in Apt 3 above, with the elephant feet and the horrible taste in ... View Post
Things have been so hectic! (Smile.) But even as I wake up most mornings in a sheer panic wondering how I will possibly get through to the end of the day (I'm very dramatic in the wee hours, and there is not enough sleep for those who work retail), we do. And we sigh. And we laugh. And then we do it ... View Post
So many reasons to love the Fan. And this was an early frontrunner. Scuffletown Park has a pretty interesting little history---best explained in the comment section of this Fan of the Fan post---and it's becoming a part of ours now, too. It seems to draw out something different in an afternoon ... View Post
![So many nighties, so little time. [+ photo recap.]](/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/IMG_5718-400x400.jpg)
I have this little quote snipped from a magazine that I've hung onto for years. It's good advice, and advice I wish I'd inherently understood from ages 15-30. Quick retrospective: Ages 1-7: sport clothes for life that involves crotches full of sand, full days on flats boat baiting shrimps with ... View Post
So this was an awesome day---noontime beer and a lot of improvisational fluting between emails---oh, and it was a Monday? ... View Post