Tag Archives: Brooklyn

We Are Rich

Posted on January 19, 2013 by

We have a wool blanket and a bowl full of oranges and windows that face trees and rooftops and friends who dance in big empty rooms and friends who wear sequins on their birthdays and friends who ride bikes through … Continue reading →

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New Lips, New You

Posted on January 10, 2013 by

Welcome to Day 6 of my cold turkey endeavor to beat chapstick. FOR GOOD. Ten years ago, a dermatologist said, “For the love of God, stop using that stuff now!” and I was like “Okay” but then continued my wayward … Continue reading →

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My Greatest Gift is You, But Then There Are All These Cats You Gave Me

Posted on January 7, 2013 by

It’s a day late, but here it is…..my rambling, perhaps not fully inclusive roll call of all the lovely and much-appreciated cat-related presents that came my way this Christmas. from AUNTIE L It was a misty moment indeed when Jake’s … Continue reading →

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Wrapping Up The Christmas Explosion

Posted on January 5, 2013 by

The holiday season often is this kind of amped-up dreamy sensuous blur of lights and paper and bus windows and snow and sand and late lunches and early coffees and too many glasses of wine and too few hours of … Continue reading →

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They Wished You A Merry Mike-mas

Posted on December 24, 2012 by

In Quinn time, we’ve been celebrating for twenty-four hours now. Welcome to Christmas, Day 2: Christmas Eve Proper. Today is the one that sees us traveling to the Scranton area to visit with the Quinn side of the family…. we … Continue reading →

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Bringing it Back

Posted on December 21, 2012 by

I have been absent for some time. I have been writing papers about contemporary photography and old masters’ paintings and papers about Lewis Carroll’s problematic images of young girls and creating super sad photo installations while listening to Leonard Cohen … Continue reading →

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This is a Warm Up.

Posted on December 16, 2012 by

  I have been deep under the water of FINALS for what feels like years but is actually only something like two weeks. And here I am, on a grey and windy Sunday morning in December, delivered to a place … Continue reading →

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Olive & Others

Posted on December 3, 2012 by

During the storm, Erin and Dylan sought refuge here in Brooklyn, abandoning New Jersey and welcoming Olive with open arms. She returned their kindness with bites, her own type of friendship gesture. From Erin, these glorious photos come.     … Continue reading →

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TGICats

Posted on November 30, 2012 by

I can’t believe I’ve never used that title before. In my struggle to ride out the remainder of the semester, blogs tend to (unfortunately) take the back seat. Let it be known– I’m thinking about cats always. Plori 24/7. from … Continue reading →

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Happy Octo-versary

Posted on November 16, 2012 by

I should begin by stating that this blog is now just over two years old and, today, the Weller-Quinn coalition is three. We moved from a dome to a half-finished house to an icy old room to a train-side apartment … Continue reading →

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