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This may be my new favorite MM, if only because I didn’t have to go anywhere, since I was already visiting with my family for Father’s Day. No sneaking around shelves, no trying to get photos when people aren’t watching, no nervousness. It was nice. Back story: My uncle is in real estate, and many [...]

After an almost two month hiatus, Mining Monday is BACK. I missed it too. To celebrate, its return, I went to the Regent Square Community Yard Sale- it only comes once a year. All those little dots were potential gems. Weather-wise, it was a FANTASTIC day for a yard sale. And unlike most Mining Mondays, [...]

Few things are more adorable to me than baby shoes. Yes, the clothes are cute, the socks are darling, but the shoes! The shoes! I’m don’t even love adult shoes the way I love baby shoes*. I know Hemingway wrote a very sad six word story involving baby shoes (which he considered his best work), [...]

This week has been crazy. Here’s what I think: 1. I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that I didn’t watch the State of the Union address, not because I was opposed to it or because I had other plans, but because the 4th disk of the second season of Project Runway came in the mail, and [...]

There was a reading project this past summer called Infinite Summer, an online book club of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. I didn’t join in, but I will be participating in the Spring 2666 reading of Roberto Balano’s 2666. I’ve been wanting to read it since it came out, but never got around to it [...]

I think 10 days after the new year has started might be considered too late to still be writing about the previous year, but I always oversleep and misjudge how long it’s going to take me to drive somewhere, so this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. Anyways, this is the space where I share [...]

I know. I missed Mining Monday. Please let me say that I had no intention of doing so. I was caught in a project of sorts yesterday from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. I know I don’t have to explain myself, but I’m disappointed. December is a hard month to do anything but shop, eat [...]

In case you need a refresher of why I’m doing this: I hate to spend money, but I love stuff. Thus, I turn to secondhand stores. Somethings are amazing. Somethings are awful. Somethings are hideous. And somethings just need to be shared. Every week, I’ll bring the best, the worst and so-bad-it’s-awesome of Goodwill, Salvation [...]

NaBloPoMo is great for catching up with things. Like how you went to a Michael Chabon reading and signing a month ago and never got around to writing about it. I was surprised there weren’t more people there, he being a Pitt graduate and having set a couple of his books here (The Mysteries of [...]

“… Sometimes when I was started on a new story and I could not get going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of the blue that they made. I would stand and look over the [...]