Month: February 2013
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Periodically I like to go through Twitter, Facebook, and Google Reader and just … delete. Minimize. Cleanse. Today I did precisely that, and it led to some observations (mostly centered around Facebook): Seriously, I got rid of about 10% of my friends just by deleting inactive accounts. (Which brings to mind the question: Hey Facebook,…
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If you’re friends with me on Instagram, then you probably know that I spent last week in Paris. (And this post will be entirely familiar to you, sorry!) The trip was Andy’s xmas present to his mother, and for some reason I got to tag along. (Yay!) Here are a few highlights of what we…
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I recently read this line in WILD by Cheryl Strayed, and it strikes me that this is exactly why our 20s matter, why they are not “wasted” years as some skeptics have argued: “I never got to be in the driver’s seat of my own life,” she’d wept to me once, in the days after…
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“Newsletter: Month One Hundred and Eight” by Heather Armstrong (Dooce) “Even if this hand right here grows to be as big as a house, it will still be a perfect hand.” You giggled and shook your head. “I won’t be able to pick up a spoon and eat cereal if my hand is THAT big.”…
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Red velvet. Gold trim. House lights. Orchestra pit. We’re in the middle of Las Ramblas, but we may as well be in a whole other world. Outside, the streets of Barcelona swell with warm voices, warm bodies — but that’s all on the other side of these walls. In here, it’s hushed conversation and cool…