Monthly Archives: September 2011

Beneath the trees

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

I should have been excited. I got home to brand new, fast Internet and hundreds of TV channels that can occupy me for hours with inside looks at dancing toddlers, bitchy housewives and shore-dwellers with big hair. If you know … Continue reading →

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Locke, tell me all your secrets

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

No matter how many weekends I spend walking the alleyways of Locke, I always feel like a little bit of an outsider when I’m here. Like the full clotheslines and peeling paint and orange trees whisper “shh” as I turn … Continue reading →

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Simply Emma

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

Emma — a 17-year-old wise woman, cheerleader, photographer, plain-pasta-eater and horse lover — is graduating from high school soon. Recently, we drove to visit her horse, Holly, at the ranch and to take a few senior pictures. Emma is a … Continue reading →

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Sonoma Vintage Art Festival + Five Senses Monday

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

Vintage jazz is running through Starbucks speakers as I sit here at a table beside four other Internet-browsers and a pretty boy reading a book titled “Beyond Feelings.” For weeks I’ve been obsessing over making enough vixen/pulp pendents and bee’s … Continue reading →

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Other side of the tracks

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

On an entirely too sunny afternoon, I tagged along — through a hole in a fence and over tracks and along a dirt path — with Dan and Maggie as they talked to people at a homeless camp for a … Continue reading →

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Five Senses Monday

Posted on September 19, 2011 by

Good morning, friends. Pardon the cell phone pics … more to come, I swear. It was a super busy weekend filled with hours of cliff jumping and swimming (I decided to stay in the water), making stuff for this weekend’s … Continue reading →

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Love yourself some random

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

It’s a Tuesday. Feels like it should be a Thursday. Has the slight bitterness of a Monday. I’ll just fast-forward through all unwanted phone calls, microwaved lunchroom lunch, the unchecked to-do list and skip ahead to the good part: later. … Continue reading →

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