review: rhodia 2010 planner

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i don’t usually put reviews on this site, mainly because so many others have written great ones on many items that i love and use nearly everyday (see sidebar links under viscosity). they are far … Read More

a new year

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and with it comes shrugging off the old raiments and worries and mistakes and fears of the year before. gone is the self you lived with through good and bad, through grace and clumsiness, through … Read More

i love NY…

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…because of the handsome man taking your order in a little vegetarian diner in the east village, and serves you generous slices of thickly buttered, not-too-sweet, and incredibly good challah bread baked on premises. …because … Read More

my people

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my people by langston hughes the night is beautiful, so the faces of my people. the stars are beautiful, so the eyes of my people. beautiful, also, is the sun. beautiful, also, are the souls … Read More

choices

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i remember growing up and standing in typhoon rains, watching, frightened, as improbable waves washed up the city streets like fresh, angry gashes, threatening property, limb, and life. i remember ducking for cover on the … Read More

cory

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rest in peace, cory aquino.

Pilot M90 LE

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Recently I had the pleasure of reviewing a beautifully-made fountain pen by Pilot, a limited edition M90, for Pen Addict, one of my favorite pen review blogs. You can find the review here.