“My shop burned down this week. But…” This from an elderly man who had just shown me a black-and-white photograph in a frame with cracked glass, displaying an old-fashioned weaver’s loom that had belonged to his mother, and on which he had learned to weave as a boy. I was at a local farmer’s marketContinue reading “Broken Glass and Knobby Cloth”
Monthly Archives: June 2010
It’s the Little Things
Sometimes all it takes is the successful prevention of a ginormous black snake from eating an adorable tiny bunny. Allow me to illustrate. 1. (bunny) [BUSH] (snake) (Jen) 2.(bunny)[BUSH](snake) o-pebble(Jen)3.(bunny) <——- [B0USH] ->(snake)||v(Jen) (Also known as the expansion and transformation of an isosceles triangle into a scalene triangle.) (Better known as) Not on my watch,Continue reading “It’s the Little Things”
Use Your Words, New England
Although the precise moment at which one leaves “the south” and enters “the north” is far from definitive, one thing is certain: it’s a long drive getting there. Road trips are always an adventure, and spending more than 10 hours in the car in a single day is bound to add humor to otherwise mundaneContinue reading “Use Your Words, New England”
Be a Woman
Ever since I watched Nine a few weeks ago (and aided and abetted by the fact that I’ve been periodically listening to the soundtrack since then), several of the songs have taken turns getting stuck in my head: Fergie’s ‘Be Italian’ and Nicole Kidman’s ‘A Very Unusual Way’ are vying for top pick. And inContinue reading “Be a Woman”
Snark on the Side 