stairwell accompaniment:Ryan Adams

sharing with you from our weekend of Michigan camping with Sam and Amanda:

In other news: we are the proud new owners of a Mercedes-Benz Turbo Diesel that has celebrated nearly the amount of birthdays as I. My husband will proudly run it off biodiesel. This development will call for the separation of me and my beloved Jetta. Times change us.

stairwell accompaniment:Over the Rhine (NEW!)

“I have heard what the talkers were talking. The talk of the beginning and the end. But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now; And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.”
-Walt Whitman

stairwell accompaniment:The Be Good Tanyas

Lately we’ve been eating cupcakes, playing uno, telling stories, having friends over for coffee and icecream, employing fans against humidity, living in the smaller things.

stairwell accompaniment:Damien Rice

enjoying summer when autumn can’t come too quickly

stairwell accompaniment:Ben Harper

A better woman than I, she hasn’t ceased to surprise me. Enjoy her detailed efforts.

Tonight we had dinner with friends we like. A lot. Friends who are willing to be the first visitors to sit on our construction-cone orange kitchen chairs and fill our small apartment with community. Walk our sidewalks with us. Pet our cat. Friends who, on occasion, give the feeling of family.