September 2011
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On snake oil and elbow grease
hurtling:
Remember way back when someone finally convinced you to make the switch from Windows to Mac? Go ahead and throw away the Advil, they said. Headaches will be a thing of the past. Everything just works! It’s like magic! You just open the box and turn the thing on and away you go! Never again will you waste an entire day trying to get one device to talk to the other. Just put them in a...
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danforth replied to your photo: Early morning shooting, first time out since I…
What camera do you use?
The photos on the dash in this picture were taken with two different cameras. There’s a pale pile right in the center of Polaroid 600 film I shot with a Polaroid 690. All the other photos (the b&w and the ones with the blue tones) were shot with a Polaroid 195.
Related: If...
So far my favorite part of today has been the young Asian guy dancing on a street corner and twirling a sign for 360 Degree Church while, across the street on another corner, an old black woman with a red bandana on her head and a printed leather jacket straight from 1987 stood smoking a brown cigarette in a cream holder, staring at the guy as if he were totally out of his mind.
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Writing for WriteGirl
As promised on Tuesday, here’s my interview on Colleen’s 50 for 50 blog. I am keeping some really amazing company - seriously, I follow Heather Armstrong (you know, Dooce) and right after me is Sugar so, wow. Please read! And if you can, please donate.
What has writing taught you?
How much I have to learn – about writing but also about myself and the world – and how there is always...
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A rising tide
Thirty years ago, my parents packed up our house in Philadelphia and moved west. They landed in the far northwestern corner of Colorado, in a town that was different from Philadelphia in almost every conceivable way. At that time, Steamboat Springs was tiny and beautiful, a combination ranching and ski town, nestled in a valley thousands of feet above sea level. It was accessible by windy mountain...
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