wanderlust
During my last visit to see my parents, I found a roll of negatives in my bathroom drawer. With no idea of how they got there, I tucked them away in my bag to scan when I returned home, assuming they were my own negatives from when I lived with my parents. The negatives sat…
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Shots from my Olympus OM-1n. I can’t give up film. Ever.
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I mentioned that I wanted to cook with lavender in my previous post. Well, I tried it. Let me say this – I love the smell of lavender. I have lavender soap in my bathroom, lavender linen spray for my sheets, and a lavender-scented eye mask for the “corpse pose” in yoga. I love it.…
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Macarons! Not those coconut macaroons that might come to mind, but Parisian macarons. They are gorgeous little bites of heaven, in any flavor under the sun. I picked up two while I was in Paris and promptly ate them. It is a fun surprise to find out what is inside since the only way to…
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It has been such a long time since I have posted! Everything at work has been going non-stop since I left for Paris in mid-March. I was there for work, but I did have some time to explore. I visited Le Marais, a district in Paris, during my stay. I came back with the most beautiful…
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I made it to Day 30! Very exciting. Like I said before, I have trouble completing creative projects and making it through an entire month is a nice mental milestone for me. Click here to see how it’s shaping up. In trying to pin down a theme, which on Day 13 I decided would be…
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Ever since I saw an episode of “The Best Thing I Ever Ate” on Food Network, I have been wanting to make a flourless chocolate cake. Aarón Sanchez noted on the cake episode that a flourless chocolate cake from the bakery Cake Flour was the best cake he’d ever eaten. I started looking for a recipe,…
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My husband loves duck. Loves it. He has stories of the ducks he has shot and how he cooked them. The only thing he’ll hunt are birds, and (luckily) he hasn’t been hunting since I met him. I have a thing about hunting. Nevertheless, he still loves it, no matter where it comes from. On…
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I have very fond memories of the Chinese New Year that I spent in China. We spent three weeks in Yunnan Province, which is the most amazing area of China, at least of the places I’ve been. Yunnan borders the countries of Vietnam, Laos, and Burma, and the provinces of Sichuan and Tibet. Thus, there…
Read MoreI’m stuck listening to the same music. Not that it’s bad or anything. I think it’s the best, that’s why I listen to it. But I just spoke with a friend who told me that there is a band named Deerhunter, and I thought he was talking about the movie, The Deer Hunter, starring Robert…
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