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Vesuvius At Home: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Someone else's picture of La Chambre aux Oiseaux. Paris doesn't feel how it looks. I spent months leading up to the trip looking at Paris on Pinterest. The night before, I had walked along the Seine and seen lovers upon lovers posing with their favorite child, the selfie stick. I had seen families too. Who comes to Paris without their family? I am sitting in a cafe in Paris. Never mind the Americans to my left and the Germans to my right- are there any French people in Paris?
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Vesuvius At Home: June 2015
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Saturday, June 6, 2015. Of photographs reminded me of these two pictures of my daughters. Is one of the more fascinating articles I've ever read. Is an old blog post by Tavi Gevinson that touched me. I have been listening to the Longform podcast. And the interviews with Cheryl Strayed and Tavi Gevinson got my juices flowing. Dear Marc Maron: Amy Schumer, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Kaitlin Olson, Jessica Walter. By Robin Rinaldi and Spinster. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Only S...
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Vesuvius At Home: CDG-DEN-AUS
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015. My heart may still be in Paris but my body is in Atlanta. Getting ready to catch a flight to Denver with my two girls. Minus my guy. I really wish he was coming. Not just so he could carry that enormous heavy bag that we ended up throwing into a wheelchair. Other reasons, too. Then April started and I became able to feel optimistic again. I saw this tweet. In the winter, I'm not capable of it. But April comes and I feel good again. I mean, if I have an aesthetic, this is it. I hav...
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Vesuvius At Home: Chocolate Tour of Paris (With Pastries, Spring, and Oeuf)
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Sunday, April 5, 2015. Chocolate Tour of Paris (With Pastries, Spring, and Oeuf). Before leaving for Paris, I read that Easter was the major holiday for chocolate. Apparently Christmas is nice and all that, but Easter is when chocolate really has its time to shine. Everywhere I went, there were bunnies and eggs in gorgeous window displays. As you can see, it was often hard to get a good picture with the reflections and all that. Here's what I managed. A patisserie in the 3rd. It's touristy and dumb.
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Vesuvius At Home: August 2015
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Monday, August 24, 2015. Neither Noah nor I are good at rocking the boat. We didn't want to call the school and ask for special treatment. I got Ayla into the car. "How big of a deal is this situation with your friends? I asked. "A big deal, a small deal, a medium deal? It's fine, it's not a big deal," Ayla said. "I'll still see them at recess and before school and stuff.". But she was holding back tears. The feelings," she said. Herself and aware of herself like a starlet in a fashion spread. Hi, I'm Br...
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Vesuvius At Home: July 2014
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Monday, July 28, 2014. At the airport I will buy a copy of the New Yorker, because I can't get one here in town. Other things I can't get in town are 1) a good burrito, 2) a good smoothie and 3) anonymity. The other night I dreamed 88 people had reviewed Angel Food on Amazon, and my dream-brain was like, see, I knew I didn't have to worry. I also dreamed a prominent mommy blogger plugged my book on her Facebook page and I took a screenshot of it and probably cried. I feel very vulnerable about it all.
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Vesuvius At Home: January 2015
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015. I woke to the white light of perfect winter. The house was quiet. Now it is snowing from a gray and blue sky, tiny flakes that fall lazily and will amount to nothing. It really is doing the most magical thing outside my window right now, with the sunlight turning to orange and the snow flakes falling so slowly they are almost still in the air, fixed like stars. The Gabby Douglas Story.". It's still snowing so prettily, but nothing will come of it. Links to this post. We did hav...
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Vesuvius At Home: August Rushes In
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015. Aug 4, 2015, 12:06:00 PM. This is one of the most beautiful posts I have ever read. It has given me a whole new perspective on August, another way to approach its slow monotonous days. Thank you for this light-filled evocation of the season. Your girls are growing up magnificently. Your photos are poetry. How I have missed your writing! Aug 4, 2015, 1:00:00 PM. Aug 4, 2015, 1:52:00 PM. Aug 4, 2015, 6:50:00 PM. Sigh Sniffle and sigh. I love this with a pain in my chest. Your writi...
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Vesuvius At Home: September 2014
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014. Even our gin isn't good enough to steal. I say But no. Neither one of us wants a donut now that we could actually have one. We are both too full on Mexican food. And zombies, they are real but not the part about the brains? Out of the blue yesterday Indy stood on a chair and did stand up. Her inflections were like Seinfeld's. "When I was born I thought Ayla was a MAN," she said. "She had super short hair like daddy and I am like, is she a man? Links to this post. At this tu...
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Vesuvius At Home: October 2014
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Friday, October 31, 2014. Ghosts of Halloween Past. I'm feeling draped in nostalgia and ennui this Halloween. What better way to nurse said feelings than a waltz down Snapfish lane. 2008, the year we had a membership to the Denver Zoo and did the Boo at the Zoo thing. Also the year my dad and I flew to NYC on Halloween, flew home on the day Obama was elected, and the year princess culture had a firm hold on both my girls. 2009: THIS IS GETTING LONG SORRY. 2010: WOW YOU ARE STILL HERE? 2013: I know, right?
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