What you do first thing in the morning can influence your whole day. If the first thing you do is stump to the computer in your pajamas to check your email, blinking and plucking your proverbs, you’re going to be in a hungry electronic funk all morning. So don’t do it. If you read the… Continue reading A Box of Matches
Month: February 2012
Etsy Traveling – Snow Day
I have President’s day off, and it kind of feels like a snow day used to feel when I was a kid. Except that this year there’s no snow and it’s unseasonably warm and sunny. So let’s time travel back to Michigan Snow Days with Etsy. I’m guessing that one of the strongest memories of… Continue reading Etsy Traveling – Snow Day
BK Flea Saturday 2.18.12
My typical Saturday morning and early afternoon usually looks like this (abridged): Wake up. Make coffee. Make breakfast. Read. Get dressed. Drop off laundry. Go to Brooklyn Flea. Browse all vendors. Head to BK Flea food court. Eat 2 pulled pork sliders from Asia Dog. Eat 1 chocolate with cocoa nibs donut from Dough. Browse… Continue reading BK Flea Saturday 2.18.12
Billy Collins at Strand
Lovely evening at a Billy Collins reading at Strand. On whether or not he’ll ever write prose: “No.” … “No one asks prose writers if they’ll ever write poetry.” … “Poetry is a bird, prose is a potato.” PS – My blog is back up, after a several month struggle/confusion with hosting.