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Today we closed on our apartment! We are now proud Manhattan homeowners. I told you this was going to be a big year.

If you weren’t paying close attention, you might think of “The Way You Make Me Feel” as one of Michael Jackson’s weaker, less interesting music video films.  However, this video has always interested me much more than the song alone. Everything Michael Jackson did as an adult came back to an exploration of himself, of [...]

Last year, I restarted a childhood tradition. I kept track of all the books I read each month. When I had time, I jotted my thoughts about them. I really enjoyed this, found it spurred conversations and great book recommendations and motivated me to keep reading. It seems I had a slow spring for books, [...]

Josh asked me to marry him. I said yes.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I have apparently reached that point of adulthood where I find myself thinking thoughts like, “I should have a monogrammed letter opener made.”

This is what my morning walk is usually like. I really just recorded this for the sounds. They hide so well you can’t really see them.

I was thinking today about the office phenomenon of those certain people who are always “totally swamped.” You know, the ones who are always too busy to take a coffee break or go out for lunch or maybe for a drink after work or to come to your party or basically to ever do anything [...]

I just frittered the whole morning on web tidying and little miscellaneous tasks that I had been putting off so that I could do them all in one go someday. Updating some things for a client, ordering some stuff from the printers, updating my own bio and services and front page, adding new images to [...]

Sometimes when I am going out of the apartment, I like to take a polaroid of something and leave before it develops so that when I come back there will be a surprise present waiting for me.

Being newly self-employed and suddenly finding myself presented with long swathes of unstructured time, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I got to this interesting pause in my life. Today I will tell you about being an artist. Not like that, though. I don’t mean it the way you think I mean. You probably [...]