Reading a friend’s post on a recent failure and lessons learned reminded me of my best failure, living in Paris after college.
I got in a program that would give me a work Visa in France for 5 years. I’d studied French for years so felt well-armed. After a month of successful home & work [...]
It’s been my unofficial goal to be absent every weekend this summer. So, for Labor Day, I’m driving to San Diego for a week. My preparations:
Drop car off at mechanic. It’s like asking for bad news. He calls, $1200 work done on car. I check, and it’s all kosher. Shit.
Buy new music for drive! Nouvelle [...]
I just came back from a 4 day camping trip in the El Dorado Forest – great alternative to Yosemite, by the way! As I was comparing my gear to my sister & her husband’s, I started a mental list of vast improvements in camping technology since the stuff my parents had in the 70s.
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She waited at the 43 Masonic stop. It was getting dark in the Presidio, and she kept thinking of that hit and run cyclist a few years ago. Hit on her bike, by a car, and nobody ID’d the car or came forward. How hard would it be to get hit on the back of [...]
Credit to Tudor Tailor- a great book you should buy, that may be a little advanced sewing-wise, but very interesting historical research on Essex wills & effigies. About the “plain townswoman”:
This figure comes from a painting showing people under attack in Paris in 1572. It offers a rare glimpse of a citizen in incomplete dress. [...]
So I have a week to make a lower-middle class woman’s Tudor costume. I spend the weekend reading about it out of town, on MOnday I do real paid work (girl has to eat!) and then, Tuesday go and buy the fabric and start cutting it out. I’m a piece-by-piece worker, mostly finish the bodice, [...]
I’ve been gone for so many weekends that I think my paperboy has given up on me. Let’s just say- I’m paying for the papers, but not getting them.
Each time I come back home I recognize things I really like. The sound of foghorns during the day, when it’s bright and sunny out (the [...]
Taking a break from work and working on costume for this weekend. I feel kind of consumed by another time period. I’m taking the quest for accuracy in another direction. In reading about 1500s, I was interested in the value and worth of clothing. Turns out it’s kind of like Japanese kimonos or Indian saris- [...]
We spent 2 afternoons at the swimming hole- second afternoon was a little windy but first day was amazing, lounging in the tubes, swimming around. Something about this part of the river, there was a current one direction, and wind the other, making it a kind of eddy. One side was deep and full of [...]
Here is an official-ish poll to determine the new name of the mystery series. If your choice wins, you get to be a victim (or you can select another character)! Isn’t that exciting.
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p.s. If this spurs your creativity feel free to leave a comment with a new suggestion. It’s a moveable feast.
my brain is in molasses today. Can I just tweet all day?
finding fresh tarragon in Carmel was impossible. # #of clerks (out of 5) who could ID tarragon: 0. So bought the plant at nursery. $3.99.
There was a time that biking down Columbus used to seriously cause anxiety attacks. Now it's almost boring. Weird.
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