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I’ve been working on various rooms of our apartment, and the next up is the bedroom. I’ve been delighting in plain white backgrounds with punches of red. I thought that I liked the latest turquoise and coral theme, but then red kept showing up in my life. So, I think…

I'm sitting in a floral dress at an outdoor fish restaurant called "The Place" in Guilford, Connecticut. Today alone I've seen artwork from 1270 CE, read and studied along the sunny shore, stopped to take pictures when the urge hit. I had lunch with two dear ladies I used to…

I’d mentioned that we’d been putting some time into redoing the living room. We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this, we looked at things like these modern LED floor lamps from pagazzi.com or just getting some brand new furniture. We spent ages thinking what would work best though.…

I’ve been reading like crazy on the way in to work over the last couple of weeks. Most recently, I finished Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen, which was a great story. Basically, the book starts in present time and we meet Jacob Jankowski as an old man, living in…

I wanted to do something new and different For my sister’s birthday, and so a few weeks before the big day in March, I started chatting people up for ideas. And listening for ideas. And finally, the perfect thing presented itself! A night out at a private dinner club, where…

I recently read “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini, the author of “The Kite Runner.” I’ve read both works, and I think that “A Thousand Splendid Suns” may well be my favorite. It’s truly hard to say. The story centers on two women in Afghanistan, and stretches the last…

Driving home from work, out of San Francisco around 6:30, I came upon a strange scene on the freeway. Literally feet from me, just across the center divide, was first a huge helicopter, full of paramedics, and then a burning oil tanker, next to a torn up taxi. The scene…

An EmbraceOriginally uploaded by Thomas Hawk Today, at the Oakland Coliseum, four fallen officers were honored. The event was attended by thousands of police officers from across the US. The four officers were shot in the line of duty, in Oakland on Saturday, the 21st of March. The incident started…

Today I saw both the Watchmen movie and the final episode of Battlestar Galactica. Both were amazing, well done, noteworthy in their own ways. A lot of my friends had read the Watchmen graphic novel when we were in college. For a literature class. Cool, no? I remember them being…