2011 has been a difficult year and I’m not going to sugar coat it. I’m glad to see it go. This may seem a bit harsh, a bit glass-half-empty, a bit whiny, and even a bit ungrateful. But it’s also true, more true than I even wish to share here, in this place that I…
admiring
For a week or two I’ve been admiring Geoffrey Keating’s handcrafted furniture. Design*Sponge did a feature on his work, and the piece that first got me was that desk with all of those lovely little drawers. If you don’t think I could fill that thing in about two minutes flat, well… then you don’t know…
unbendable
Unbendable: Firmly, often unreasonably immovable in purpose or will: adamant, adamantine, brassbound, die-hard, grim, implacable, incompliant, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, obdurate, relentless, remorseless, rigid, stubborn, unbending, uncompliant, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding. Idioms: stubborn as a mule. See resist/yield. December 19: After being a bit nervous at the, ahem, heft of my Christmas cards once I assembled…