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“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past...”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One...

Mar 18th

I leave Washington DC to move back to Toronto in exactly ten...

Mar 18th

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip...”
— Vita Sackville-West (via)

Mar 17th

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On our way back from Chicago in early January, Maria decided to play with the Brushes app on my...

Mar 17th

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Monday night, I was invited to take part in the tenth anniversary show of 20x2 in Austin. For those...

Mar 17th

“Something you must know: With every day that passes, I...”
— Tyler Knott Gregson

Mar 17th

What if all 300,000,000 Americans lived in one place, packed...

Mar 17th

“I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I...”
— Alice’s Adventures in...

Mar 15th

Awesome. (via)

Mar 15th

Maybe I've changed.

I’m a little scared of revolving doors. Insects? They creep me out. I may not be totally...

Mar 14th

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Higher education has fascinated me for years, mainly because I think the whole institutional machine...

Mar 13th

Loving the brilliant and whimsical photography of David...

Mar 13th

Off to the airport, early in the morning, to head to Austin...

Mar 12th

since feeling is first

since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss...

Mar 12th

Right now, I’d love to be curled up in bed or on the...

Mar 12th

“Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place;...”
— Jodi Picoult (via)

Mar 12th

A series of illustrations based on maps by Christoph Niemann...

Mar 11th

“When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach...”
— Zig Ziglar (via)

Mar 11th

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El Fin Del Mundo This is absolutely strange and disturbing and completely out of left field and...

Mar 11th

“If you are weary and your smile abandons you, I will give...”
— Tyler Knott Gregson

Mar 11th

Two gorgeous birds, enjoying the sunshine and each...

Mar 10th

Was talking about Rachel Weisz yesterday. Crazy to think...

Mar 10th

“More importantly, we’ve totally forgotten or lost the...”
— Jonathan Safran Froer, in...

Mar 10th

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Are you a New Dork? If you’re reading this, chances are you’ll get most of the jokes in...

Mar 9th

I’m not one to talk about work very often, but I did...

Mar 9th

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When You Find Me by Joshua Radin and Maria Taylor (via) Something is said, it sits in my head...

Mar 9th

Great series of ads by DDB for the MMR 1501 electric food...

Mar 9th

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If this video (via) doesn’t make you want to wear a seatbelt every time you’re in a car,...

Mar 8th

Some thoughts on last night: Favorite dress of the...

Mar 8th

This weekend, the “flutters” part of my heart...

Mar 8th

It’s Maria’s birthday today, which means...

Mar 7th

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In today’s dose of things that are incredibly awesome… Mean Disney Girls: Disney...

Mar 5th

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and...”
— Washington Irving (via) I...

Mar 5th

According to the kind folks at Tumblr who sent me an email...

Mar 5th

“For just one moment, a breath or a blink of you, I’d give...”
— Tyler Knott Gregson

Mar 5th

When I move to my next apartment in Toronto in a month or...

Mar 4th

“I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal....”
— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis...

Mar 4th

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Roger Ebert, in his own voice: This preview clip in which he demonstrates his new voice for the...

Mar 3rd

“Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is...”
— Henri Frederic Amiel (via)

Mar 3rd

Lots of pillows = important. (I’ve only learned this...

Mar 3rd

“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its...”
— Dr. Seuss (via)

Mar 2nd

I am exhausted. Not in the “been a long day”...

Mar 2nd

“If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk...”
— Mitsugi Saotome (via)

Mar 2nd

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I am in desperate need of a bright morning today, even if that ray of sunshine is fake and...

Mar 2nd

“Dreams are always crushing when they don’t come true. But...”
— The Notebook (via)

Mar 2nd

“I’ve been around a long time, and young men, if there is one...”
— Roger Ebert (via)

Mar 1st

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We Love xkcd, a video by Elaine Doyle and Olga Nunes, inspired by this comic. (via)

Mar 1st

“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of...”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

Mar 1st

Twenty-eight.

Mar 1st