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Life + Health

  • Fear of doing it wrong = not doing it at all.

    I didn’t really feel like blogging last week, in part because it was a week of several very sad events around the world, but also because I’ve been filled with an enormous…

  • Quick + cheap: Frameless frame.

    For the past 22 years, I’ve been dragging this giant Morrissey poster around with me everywhere I’ve lived — and I’ve lived in a lot of places. It’s done a few stints…

  • Saturday to-do.

    Our house has been so neglected lately. All of our focus has been on the apartment, and since putting the shelves up in the kitchen a few weeks ago, our house has…

  • 30 years ago tonight.

    Michael and Jermaine during rehearsals for “Motown 25,” 1983 / Photo © NBC, via MJJpictures On March 25, 1983, Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever was recorded live for a TV broadcast two…

  • Getting settled.

    Sorry to leave you with those yelling goats for so long! Friday was our big Brooklyn moving day. We said goodbye to DUMBO and hello (again) to Cobble Hill. The two neighborhoods…

  • About skin.

    I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a long, long time now. Skin—and, more specifically, adult acne—is something I’ve touched on briefly here and on my old blog, but never really…

  • Weekend to-do.

    Photo taken by Captain W. F. Wood of the S. S. Etonian on April 12, 1912 (via Bidtracker) I saw this photo a few days ago when a coworker linked to an…

  • Life on the floor.

    I’m not sure when this photo was taken. 1977? 1978? I’m so bad at determining the ages of children younger than 10. I think I must be 2 or 3 years old…

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