Category Archives: Family

Holiday Vintage Shopping

I went with my family on our annual holiday trip down to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the city in which I lived for the first nine years of my life.  It was founded on Christmas Eve by German settlers, hence the name, and is such a wonderful place to visit during this time of year.  My favorite [...]
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Scenes from a birthday

And an oldie…
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Family

From Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography: I must therefore submit to this law: I cannot penetrate, cannot reach into the Photograph. I can only sweep it with my glance, like a smooth surface. The Photograph is flat, platitudinous in the true sense of the word, that is what I must acknowledge. [...]
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Annals

It is hard to accept that my parents are aging.  When we’ve gone without seeing one another for a sufficient period of time, there have always been little changes, nothing alarming.  Lately, I am starting to really see the signals of time: on their hands and their faces, by the expressions they wear, by the [...]
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Avant guard kittens

Avant guard kittens: Nico + Alex. These were taken on the day we brought them home from the animal rescue.  It was love at first sight, particularly because it appeared they had been born in a dryer.  We were initially told Nico was a male (Nicholas), and Alex a girl (Alexandra), but the error was quickly [...]
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Dad

Me: Remember that time mom asked you to make a salad and you used white grapes with like onion and cucumber and caesar dressing? Dad: Umm … nope. Me: Right. Dad: You know, I’ve gotten so much flack for that over the years. I’m going to write a cookbook someday titled, “Cooking With Grapes.” Me: It will be a [...]
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Happy birthday Zach !

Happy birthday Zach ! Everyone thinks you’re 2 cool 4 school, but they didn’t know you back when even the swingset would beat you up, and you used Froggy and your other stuffed friends as a proxy to break the ‘no-cursing’ rule (probably, that makes you even cooler). Lots of love.
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Dad: You know, the only magazine that I subscribe to that actually arrives on time is Beer Advocate. Me: What do you mean? Dad: It comes in the month that it’s issued. I get the December issue in December. With Smart Money, I get the December issue in November, which means it was probably written in October, [...]
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