It’s just stuff, right? Furniture, dishes, pieces of paper. It gets sold, donated, or thrown away because it’s just stuff.
But here’s what I don’t get. Why is it making me so sad?
It’s because I remember Dakota curled up on the sofa, his head popping up as I came through the front door.
Or Willow, when she [...]

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I’m inept when it comes to pop culture. Oh, sure, I can tell you all of the cool tech things happening. I can also name a few popular television shows and *maybe* a few popular musical groups. But I started watching Battlestar Galactica when season three was ending. I didn’t get into [...]

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I may not agree with all of the things he says about paint graffiti and his somewhat elitist attitudes, but I love this different type of art.

What if we took different art forms and turned them upside down, inside out. Negatives from film are interesting. In fact, I’ve seen some beautiful negatives on display. What [...]

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I found this weather report via Jeff, a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, at this Public Address. It cracked me up, so I had to subscribe to their feed.  It’s just so dang funny.

I can’t wait to see how they report the weather, and any other city ongoings, as time goes on.
And, on [...]

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Today is my parents’ anniversary. Fourty-two years together, and still going strong. Before I delve in further, let me say that there aren’t any images with this blog post because my parents don’t like to be photographed much and don’t want to have their images plastered all over the Internet. Out of respect for them, [...]

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I love this little tool. It’s not only a cool way to look at the things we’re doing, but it’s a great way to talk about clouds, topics, and the ways things are organized.
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I had created a wordle for my flickr tags. It was fun. So I thought it would be [...]

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I burst into tears at Shadow’s house this morning, moments before I was supposed to take Willow to TaeKwonDo. I had been reading the blog of another PhD student, and had been scouring the Minnesota newspapers for places to live, and it was all too much.
“I don’t think I have a strong enough background to [...]

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I’m reading Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks (author of The Notebook and Message in a Bottle, among others) and Micah Sparks, his brother. In this autobiographical narrative, the two brothers take the trip of lifetime: an around-the-world trip. They leave their families, embarking on an adventure with one another, discovering new cultures, [...]

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Let me preface by stating that I did not vote for either Clinton or Obama in the primaries, and I think that there are faults with both of them in terms of who should be President of the United States (but their faults, from my perspective, are far less than those of McCain).
This primary season [...]

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When it comes to my photography, I don’t put myself out there too much.
I know, I know…you’re saying…wtf? She has a photoblog, posts on flickr, writes for VFXY Photos, and she doesn’t put herself out there much? Hah!
Seriously, though, I don’t put myself out there in a way that will call for *too* much [...]

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