Have you ever gotten the perfect present? The one that makes you gasp a little when you open it; amazed that the giver knows you so well? The one that you could never have picked for yourself, but when you see it you know it is “you?”
I got one of those this year.
Before I go [...]
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The perfect present
Posted in collections, family on January 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A post about baseball
Posted in St. Louis, baseball, collections, recollections on October 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
If you know me at all you know that I am a fanatical baseball fan. To be more precise, I am a St. Louis Cardinals fan.
My appreciation for the Cardinals leads me to do things that are pretty much totally out of character for me — yesterday I walked up to a perfect stranger wearing [...]
Collections, part two
Posted in collections on August 26, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I have been planning to do another “collections” post for awhile now, and two things have made me choose buttons as the focus for this entry.
First, I had the chance to attend an opening at the Beet Gallery here in Portland, where my two friends Ilisha Helfman and Joe Freedman are showing their work. Ilisha [...]
