I've discovered Malcolm Gladwell and decided that I like what he has to say a lot:

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I haven't been here in a while and that has been deliberate. I've needed to ween myself from my obsessive Internet and so I needed to be here much less as well. But I wanted to let you all know I am still alive, still designing gardens and in many ways still doing well.

I have lots of pictures I could and perhaps should post here. I know that it is ( Read more... )

 Real Estate article about Fair Haven in NY Times

Last night we laughed ourselves silly at the local filmhouse watching "The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls". The movie documents the careers of New Zealand twins Jools and Lynda Topps, two yodeling lesbian comedian activists who really won our hearts with their down-home, down to earth nature and good hearted, good natured good times.

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A friend from my writing group sent the following link:

http://iwl.me

I put in several texts and got disparate results including: Kurt Vonnegut, Ernest Hemingway and Chuck Palahniuk. Not sure if I agree or what to make of that, but it's fun nonetheless.

Who do you get?

It is warm and the the peaches in the bowl keep rotting quickly; so I need to eat them even quicker. Life is good and I haven't been here much. This was to a large extent a conscious decision. I needed a break. I needed to withdraw and I'm still not sure what my relationship with the Internet and this journal should be. I am looking for focus. I am ( Read more... )

I've posted very few pictures of the house here. Okay, some of the bedroom, yes, but beyond that, not really. This is mostly because I have been in denial of the house. I wouldn't have picked the neighborhood. I wouldn't have picked the house. None of it was really ideal. The only redeeming feature was, well, that Tess lived there. That's a pretty ( Read more... )

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