Archive for July, 2003

The ever-talented Sarah Hepola on my life.

The man in front of the beer display has his arms folded in front of him, genie style, forearms parallel with the floor. He mumbles something, and then gives a hard blink and a quick nod at the beer. It’s an eerily familiar “I Dream of Jeannie” imitation. At first I think he must be […]

So Bryan used to be an actor, which means that every once in awhile I find myself doing odd things, like spending the day being a reader for a regional theater company. A reader sits in a chair and reads the lines between the lines that the real actor needs to say.
Real actor: I […]

My favorite part of a Vogue article by Katrina Heron, former editor-in-chief of Wired magazine. She quit her hectic job to be a better mom and find a more varied life:
“The joys of a carefree life eluded me. I’d sit down with a book and not be able to read it. I was distracted, all […]

The back of this girl’s car is elaborate. She has a few bobble-head dolls in the back window: a puma, a devil, a girl on a surfboard, a Barbie doll. The bumper is covered with stickers: “I live with FEAR every day., Princess, Bitch, Kill ‘em all!, Girls gone wild!, I don’t live with insanity, […]

I am in desperate need of eight full, red skirts for our bridesmaids and groomspeople. I want something like this, but in a rich blue-red. Also, I’d like to keep them under $70 or so. I’ve had people suggest David’s Bridal, but I’m not so into the shiny fabric in combination with the shirts I […]

A well-dressed man proceeds down Market Street with one hand in his pocket and the other bent at the elbow, wrist and palm up. Tottering on his forearm is an obedient Chihuahua with the perpetually frightened look of his breed. The dog is baffled, not at all comfortable with the arrangement, and glances nervously at […]

Last night we decided to honeymoon in Asia. This is why. The $699 All Asia Pass includes roundtrip airfare right out of San Francisco and twenty-one days of free travel between seventeen cities. SARS be damned, I’d be on a plane right now if I didn’t have some cake tastings and dress fittings to tend.
Meanwhile, […]

I’ve been craving art lately, our walls are big and bare. I went window shopping/daydreaming online, and found a few pieces by local artists whose work I’d like to see more regularly. Every morning when I make myself a cup of tea, for example.
Nate VanDyke’s “Beth“.
Tiffany Larsen was the art director of my […]

Laura and I pass City Lights bookstore, which is hosting an apparently popular event.
Me: Who’s reading?
Laura: I think it’s Sam Shepard.
Me: What do you think, should I press my face to the window and do the blowfish thing?
Laura: Totally.
Me: Like, “Shep! What’s up Sheppppp!”
Laura: “Sammehh!” (Mimes banging on the […]