It’s nice to see reminders of home in surprising places. The US Postal Service features these Hawaii-bound vacationers on its website, completed with kukui nut and orchid leis. The Hawaii Visitors Bureau must be pleased to see Hawaii depicted as a worry-free vacation zone. The post office’s “hold mail” service, while necessary [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Shaka!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Hawaii, shaka on June 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mora’s Day of Pampering
Posted in Uncategorized on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today, Mora got a bath (the first one in a long time!) and underwent a safety and emissions test. After some minor adjustments of her headlights and the license plate illumination, she passed without a problem.
She’s definitely getting up there in years now, so we sometimes talk about possible options for Mora’s successor. [...]
Random Collisions
Posted in Uncategorized on June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Weeks Bridge yields all sorts of surprises. These urban art pieces are just about as charming as the smoots of MIT lore.
My friend Sabrina and I went on a walk about a week ago and happened upon a little plaque on Weeks Bridge. From what I can tell, it appears to be a monument [...]
Simple Dinner
Posted in Uncategorized on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The recent trouble with tomatoes quashed plans for the gazpacho I’ve been craving, so I ended up cobbling together a surprisingly tasty pea and ginger soup from whatever we had on hand. Simple dinners rock. And Mark Bittman is the king of simplicity.
But the tomato warnings are having terrible repercussions:
“The unjust action of the FDA [...]
Caught
Posted in Uncategorized on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love the details in the cover of The New Yorker this week: the look exchanged between the woman receiving a delivery and the proprietor of the local bookstore next door; the contemporary font of “amazon.com” printed on the brown cardboard box that she receives; the bookstore painted an identical shade of brown, with [...]
Small but mighty
Posted in Uncategorized on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
These few weeks of intersession are a drag, since it means that the library closes promptly at 5 o’clock, far too early for Alán to leave his work. Today, displacement from the library meant that I had some time to browse my new favorite bookstore: Raven Used Books. As always, browsing is dangerous. [...]
Domestic Cares
Posted in Uncategorized on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(photo from apartmenttherapy.com)
Akiko Busch’s “The Drudgery of Chores, and the Comfort” has been lingering in my thoughts. Since moving, Alán and I have settled into our own household rhythm now, which is perhaps why this short meditation on chores seems to resonate so precisely with a sense that I feel from time to time: [...]
Tinkering
Posted in Uncategorized on June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Please don’t pay attention to the clinking and clanging as I get this new space set up for occasional play. I’m resurrecting “pikolint” in a new form, but the spirit will likely be similar. “Pikolint” is my place to gather musings, minute observations, and stray thoughts of mine.
