There's been a place down the street from me called 3 Cafe for several months now, but I had yet to try it out before this weekend - and man, oh man. It's always the little places that blow you out of the water, eh? I met some friends for brunch on Saturday, and there … Continue reading Weekend Update: The Eat Everything in Sight Edition
Molly: Skating Away with a Final Solo
Molly McKenna, a senior at Lenox Memorial High School, has spent countless hours on the ice at the Boys’ and Girls’ Club of Pittsfield, practicing figure skating and ice dancing routines, teaching younger children, and helping to stage events. On March 12 and 13, McKenna will skate her final solo as a graduating member of … Continue reading Molly: Skating Away with a Final Solo
A Week to the Day: #PCWM
It's only been seven days, and yet the campers of PodCamp WesternMass II have already put me to shame in the race to post photos, recaps, vids, and other juicy bits of content on the InterWebs. Rearing up the back, I hereby submit my PCWM2 montage, made with photos from my Nikon D40, iPhone, and … Continue reading A Week to the Day: #PCWM
Listless.
Try as I might to put together a top ten albums list this year, I'm coming up short. While my multimedia consumption hasn't exactly slowed, it's changed. For one, I was the queen of the iPhone in 2009, and as such did a lot more downloading of individual tunes and podcasts than of full albums. … Continue reading Listless.
Making Conversation, Comparison, and Corrections
"She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? ...Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures."- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections It was Christmas night, and my SiL Jenny and I were driving home to my parents' house from my Grandmother's. My precocious little … Continue reading Making Conversation, Comparison, and Corrections
