By Emily on May 16, 2013
Six years ago, as I was preparing to move back to Spain, I wanted a means of communicating with people at home, of sharing photos, something beyond group emails. And so I decided, hesitantly, to start a blog. Six years later, that blog has become this space. This blog has taken me from Montana to [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, blog, fiesta, photography, writing | Tagged a space to call my own, another year older and deeper in debt, blog anniversary, blogiversary?, six years
By Emily on December 22, 2012
It’s been a slog, these last few weeks of the semester. I pulled an all-nighter for the first time in, oh, a decade or so. I did a couple of presentations and wrote 35 pages of papers and wrapped up a group project and got a new research assistantship, all within a few days. And [...]
Posted in blog, teaching, working, writing | Tagged Gossip Girl, grading, semester's end, TA, UT
By Emily on September 21, 2012
Last Friday night, I went to the opening of Futureland, the new exhibit on Norman Bel Geddes at the Harry Ransom Center on campus. Bel Geddes was an industrial designer, set designer, all around “forward thinker,” and the event was a lot of fun. Especially fun since I won the tickets. There were futuristic cocktails, [...]
Posted in Austin, design, writing | Tagged Eames, futurist, Harry Ransom Center. The University of Texas, industrial design, Instagram, Norman Bel Geddes
By Emily on June 7, 2012
For me, there’s something really cathartic about putting pen to paper, noticing how one’s handwriting changes mid-paragraph, watching the ink flow neatly from the rollerball. I am very specific about pens, less so about paper. My bags and purses are filled with schnipsels of paper, scenes imagined on the backs of receipts, quotes shoved into [...]
Posted in writing | Tagged bathtub stories, creative writing, feeling inspired, finding time, writing
By Emily on October 26, 2011
When I lie in bed in the morning, listening to NPR and all of the depressing news about the Postal Service, about closing offices, no Saturday delivery, that people just don’t use the mail the way they used to, I find myself feeling personally responsible. Guilty, even, that I’ve been neglecting the post office, one [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, blogs I read and like, moving, Spain, travel, writing | Tagged cool school, going postal, letters, old school?, post office, postal service, USPS
By Emily on October 12, 2011
I recently attended a poetry reading as part of the Montana Festival of the Book. To be honest, the poet I most wanted to see, a former professor of mine, wasn’t there and initially I felt sort of disappointed. I am so penurious with my time lately – I feel like I have so little [...]
Posted in Missoula, poetry, writing | Tagged bravery, poetry, transition
By Emily on June 25, 2011
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Yes, I’m attempting to cover four days in just one catch up post. And feeling a bit sheepish about it. Things have gotten away from me a bit lately, in general as well as in terms of this little June project. Life is in flux, in so many ways. And, in wanting to talk about [...]
Posted in getting crafty, moving, what I'm listening to now, writing
By Emily on June 9, 2011
So, as I mentioned earlier, my nose was deep in New York magazine today. And when I say nose, I mean it. This morning, pre-magazine lunch break, I was thinking about my Day 9 post and about the various mediums at my disposal. Still photos. Video, if I get less self-conscious about it. The written [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, photography, things that make me smile, travel, writing | Tagged 30 days of creativity, New York magazine, Pamplona, smells
By Emily on June 1, 2011
Hello, June! This may be a fool’s errand, but I’ve decided to try 30 Days of Creativity, starting today. The whole idea is to make something, anything, every day for the month of June. And since it’s still rainy here and not especially summer-y, I thought I might give it a go. In March 2009, [...]
Posted in blog, getting crafty, photography, things that make me smile, writing | Tagged 30 days of creativity, another project, Flickr, Pinterest
By Emily on May 5, 2011
{This piece has been sitting in some part of my brain for a long time. I’ve seen it in a few places – it was a poster on the back of a friend’s bedroom door, and in some notebook at my parents’ house, I’ve written it all out in turquoise fountain pen. Over the years, [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, writing | Tagged letters, mail, thoughts, writing
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.
