By Emily on August 3, 2012
“There are many dramas inherent to relocation via the highway: the tears triggered by a country song, the weird free fall of registering at a motel and not knowing your address, the exhilarating merger of open road and open future. But no one ever talks about those agonizing miles between your departure point and the [...]
Posted in Austin, books, Montana, moving | Tagged driving, en route, moving
By Emily on February 20, 2012
Fairfield “A guy I used to know — he taught me all about the sky.” Humphrey Bogart in High Sierra I wanted it depressed, one dusty road and two cafés both with ‘help wanted’ signs. Where I ate, the waitress was too in love with the cook for the things I wanted to say. The [...]
Posted in Montana, photography, poetry | Tagged Freezeout Lake, Montana, poetry, Richard Hugo
By Emily on December 4, 2011
I’m sitting in my living room, listening to “Linus and Lucy” for one of the first times this season, a little transfixed by the Christmas tree, finally decorated. It’s my first tree (and I even wielded the saw!) and is mostly covered with my parents’ castoff ornaments and a bunch of FIMO fruit ornaments [...]
Posted in adventures in cooking, around the house, blogs I read and like, letter writing, Montana, seasons, things that make me smile, what I'm listening to now | Tagged around the house, Brian Ferry, Christmas, crock pot, Sunday, the blue hour, tree cutting, winter
By Emily on August 2, 2011
You know those roads you’ve driven a million times? For me, it’s the 200 miles between where I live now and my hometown. It’s a quick drive in the summer but a pretty beautiful one, with dramatic changes in scenery and a hop over the Rocky Mountains. There’s one section with rolling hills, about 60 [...]
Posted in Montana, photography, things that make me smile, travel | Tagged Country roads, Highway 200, Montana, take me home
By Emily on July 16, 2011
This has been a very strange summer, and all of a sudden I’m realizing that it’s mid-July and it’s halfway over. Montana summers don’t really follow the June-July-August model, to be fair, and I’m sure we’ll have some lovely, warm September days. Even so, it’s mid-July. I think I’ve eaten a total of two meals [...]
Posted in Montana, seasons, what I'm listening to now | Tagged Colin Meloy's vocabulary, Decemberists, summer
By Emily on June 6, 2011
Remember that squirrel from yesterday? Well, he’s making himself known. This is what I woke up to this morning: Bastard. This means war. But since it was raining when I got home from work, war will have to wait a day. In the meantime, purple nails are going to be the most creative painting of [...]
Posted in blog, Montana, photography, rants | Tagged 30 days of creativity, adventures in gardening, Forever 21 cheap nail polish, warring with a squirrel
By Emily on June 4, 2011
Here’s looking on the bright side: after a week of rain, the pansies on the front steps have bounced back from the mowing by the deer. Take that, stupid deer.
Posted in a few of my favorite things, blog, Montana, photography | Tagged #createstuff, 30 days of creativity, damn deer, front steps, pansies
By Emily on March 15, 2011
Say something warm. Hello. The world was full of harm until this wind placated grass and put the fish to rest. And wave hello. Someone may be out there riding undulating light our way. Wherever we live, we sleep here where cattle sleep beside the full canal. We slept here young in poems. The canal [...]
Posted in Montana, poetry, seasons | Tagged poetry, Richard Hugo, spring
By Emily on February 2, 2011
But it is from ‘ol Gobbler’s Knob that our friend Punxsutawney Phil decided spring is on the way. Tell that to people in the Midwest. Or Northeast. Or anywhere in the South. Or here, where it was -5 or -10 this morning, depending on who you talked to (through chattering teeth). But Phil seems to [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, Montana, photography, seasons | Tagged but not the one with Andie MacDowell, Christmas tree cutting, Groundhog Day, Idaho, seasons, skijoring, snowshoeing, winter
By Emily on November 30, 2010
Goodbye to this year’s National Blog Posting Month. I actually managed to post something on every day in November! I can’t say that all of the posts were beautiful, or super thoughtful – but it was a good exercise. It got me writing and thinking, feeling inspired and getting a lot quicker at getting the [...]
Posted in blog, getting crafty, Montana, seasons, The Purge 2010, things that make me smile | Tagged December, holidays, NaBloPoMo, snow
I like writing, photography, reading, music, design, typography, paper products, days in the seventies and sparkly snow, Spanish wine and cans of PBR. I spent a year in Córdoba, Spain, working as a language and culture assistant through the Spanish government, traveling, and writing about it here. After a few years back in my home state of Montana, I moved to Austin, Texas, where I like to go exploring, take pictures of my food, write letters, dream of far-off places, and think about concepts of home.
