My siblings and I have been kicking around the idea of starting a business together for a few years now. We’ve talked about it. We’ve mentioned it in passing. Every now and then we’ll actually start to make some plans to do it. However we’ve never really committed to it before because we weren’t all [...]

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This morning I woke up earlier than I would have liked. It was one of those mornings when you’re still too tired to get up and do anything but you’re not quite tired enough to actually go back to sleep. I tried reading for awhile (am almost done with The Knitting Circle) but decided that [...]

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Over Thanksgiving weekend I decided to try to learn how to crochet. My mom had taught me how to do a basic crochet stitch when I was a kid and I really enjoyed doing it but then I never did anything with the skill. I wasn’t sure how easy it would be to learn how [...]

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I try to read books that cover a diverse range of different topics and styles. Mostly I choose books that are relevant to the topics that I am currently most interested in or most affected by. However, sometimes I find myself picking up books that are not related to anything that I’m doing or dealing [...]

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One of my favorite things about social networking is that you can learn about stuff that you might never have discovered on your own. Case in point - someone I know posted a question about lomography and I got curious about what that is so I started looking into it. It turns out that it’s [...]

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I’ve been enjoying a little bit of a twist on instant hot chocolate lately. I thought some other people might want to enjoy it as well. Here’s my recipe:

Get a package of instant hot chocolate (the kind that you can heat up with either water or milk)
Fill half a cup with water.
Add a few drops [...]

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Note: this image comes from the DeYoung museum’s website (linked to below)
I went to a talk yesterday at the JCCSF about Amish Quilts. There is a collection of classic Amish Quilts on display here in San Francisco at the DeYoung Museum. The collection is a private collection from a couple named Faith and Stephen Brown [...]

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There are a wide range of different topics that I write about on a regular basis. My favorite topic of all is probably creativity. In fact, I try to take a creative slant to almost any other topic that I write about (although I wouldn’t say that I always succeed). I believe that writing about [...]

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I used to feel a big sense of obligation to make/buy Christmas presents for a lot of the people in my life. It wasn’t that I felt that I was obligated by them. It was that I obligated myself because I wanted these people to know that they were in my thoughts all year long. [...]

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I just returned from a really great trip home to Tucson. The point of the trip was, of course, to visit my family. However I ended up actually doing a lot of fun things during my stay. I went hiking in the desert with my mom, sis and the dogs. I went to a terrifically [...]

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