Yesterday, after several days of continuous of pouring rain, a block of a central street connecting Baltimore's largest and busiest non-highway North and South roads collapsed onto heavily used CSX (once B&O) railroad tracks, swallowing ten cars, streetlights, and the retaining wall, with no injuries. Parts of the city originally built as ( Read more... )

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I traveled to the University of Arizona in Tucson this past week, much to my consternation without my husband who spent his earliest years in that town. Still, the desert is an absolutely wonderful place to be lonely, and there was something to driving through unhurried in a rental car full of prepaid fuel and an almost reliable phone GPS system. ( Read more... )

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I am basically in denial about the immanence of Christmas/Yule/Solstice/Winter Proper. We had such an early, false-start winter off and on that I tumbled into seasonally-affected depression before my coping mechanisms of trees and lights and baking kicked in, and I've never really quite adjusted. I'm also kind of broke right now and many of my ( Read more... )

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Off and on for a couple of years, I've been compulsively making little cyanotype and found-object jewelry, gifting some of them and then assembling a few more with the hopes of making the hobby pay for itself. I finally put the backlog up on etsy today. The shop is open (again!). Now that I have something like an end-to-end process and a camera ( Read more... )

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Happy Halloween, from the creepiest understated thing in Sandman.


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