archives for March 2008

why we love persephone

Tuesday 25 March 2008 | I like a cookie


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open letter to the professoressa

Tuesday 18 March 2008 | someone left a cookie

Dearest P—
You wouldn’t happen to be awake and checking email by any chance? It’s me, the bad penny turning up after another nine-month absence. This morning I’ve been up since around 5:30 sneezing my head off with some kind of allergies/cold but didn’t want to call in case you were still snoozing (not likely, though) […]

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hasty pudding

Monday 17 March 2008 | someone left a cookie

• We approach our 700th post! But at a snail’s pace, anticlimactically.
• The Brujo and I returned from Texas on Thursday night. Since then he has been either 1) in the field or 2) holed up in his study writing his contributions to the Alt Weekly’s annual guide to Santa Fe. When I see him […]

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just to get the blog rolling

Friday 7 March 2008 | someone left a cookie

I dare oleoptene to look at my new robin’s-egg-and-chocolate etsy faves (why can’t one of my treasuries be on the front page?! I’m so *good* at this!) and tell me, tell me I don’t have her number, oh snap! I will post a refrain or two later, but now I’m off to Aunt Freud and […]

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if the title to this post could be infinitely long, it wouldn’t be merely “soundtrack to march so far,” but something like:

Sunday 2 March 2008 | someone left a cookie

“three songs from the mix CD which oleoptene made for me which are so poignantly hooked you must all drop what you’re doing and listen to them RIGHT THIS SECOND, copyright laws be damned, because it’s already nearly seventy degrees today and for the first time in weeks I am something like happy, though with […]

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my first 39th birthday present

Saturday 1 March 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar

Yes, I am aware that I needed another zippy bag like a new orifice but it was lined in lavender, people. I held out as long as I could and then I snapped.
Per Aunt Freud’s instructions I will summon fake bravery and list the things I did in the last couple of days of which […]

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elle se brosses les dents

Saturday 1 March 2008 | someone left a cookie

The Brujo’s away doing a concert; I keep busy as best I can.

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