These Curious Days

I’ve been drinking way too much Coca Cola since the year started, and it’s just nullifying the effects of my efforts to exercise and eat right. So to fill that gap between dinner and bedtime, I’ve decided to rediscover the joy of tea-drinking.
I used to drink a lot of fruit tea (introduced to me by [...]

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Browsing in a bookstore this evening, I found Barbara Kingsolver’s book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Part recipe book, part diary and part guidebook, it’s an interesting story about her family’s radical decision to abandon the urban lifestyle and move to a rural area where they grew and made their own food and basic necessities from scratch.

The [...]

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Almost evening. This is a time when things get blurry — even the line that divides the flashy cosmo highlife and decrepit shanties.

What’s outside your window?
(photo taken by riot)

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Stacking Bubble Rings in Greyscale by Melinda Young (below) is whimsical and fun, and while the Blush (cherry, red, candy pink color) and Fresh (jade, pale blue and cream) variants pop nicely, the understatement of Greyscale (seen below: gray, charcoal and white) gives it an edginess that says, “I like fun and games, but I’m [...]

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