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Jessica
Oakland, CA
Interests: narratives, making things, food, playing amateur anthropologist
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Travel Tuesday: Falun Gong in Chinatown
Posted Aug 28, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Travel Tuesday: Mission Peaks
Posted Aug 21, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Hardball and softball
So ... I'm kind of a self help book junkie. Can't help it, I'm drawn to them like a moth to lamplight. Joan Didion once wrote (and I'm paraphrasing her here) that when she's at a loss, she turns to books. She researches and reads and through that process of... Continue reading
Posted Aug 19, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Travel Tuesday: Monterey CA
Posted Aug 14, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Short Bits
Apologies, it's been rather quiet around here. I gave in my notice today at my job, and things will be a bit in flux here for the next month or so as I wrap up there, move out of my place and back in with my parents, and prepare to... Continue reading
Posted Aug 8, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Small snippets
Small snippets. What I remember most from seeing my grandma in the hospital, was the way she looked so fiercely unhappy to be where she was. I could sense from the way she pulled at her IV and kept asking why she was in the hospital, that she wanted desperately... Continue reading
Posted Jul 15, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Travel Tuesday: Sisterhood of Knitters
Posted Jul 10, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Testing ... Small Stones
So Sigrid totally called it. Morning pages are nice ... in theory. Ah! I seem to remember why I've never been able to make these a habit. Most mornings, if I can carve out the time to write, I don't have time for both morning pages and writing. So anyways,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 8, 2012 at Words and Roots
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More quilt blocks
Posted Jul 5, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Travel Tuesday - Cinque Terra
Posted Jul 3, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Accept it girl, it's winter
You know those films where the protagonist is totally stuck in their quiet life, moving rotely through work before coming back to a quiet apartment and empty evenings, making their way through life as though stuck underwater? That's totally how I feel right now. I mean, I have good friends... Continue reading
Posted Jul 1, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Travel Tuesday - San Francisco Bay
Posted Jun 26, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Deliberate practice
Have you heard of deliberate practice? The idea comes from the research of they psychologist K. Anders Ericsson, who noticed that the path for becoming an expert at a skill does not merely involve repeating that skill a large number of times, but rather breaking down those skills and practicing... Continue reading
Posted Jun 24, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Travel Tuesday: Dongdaemun Market
Posted Jun 19, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Personal histories, stitched together
Posted Jun 17, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Morning Pages
Posted Jun 15, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Travel Tuesday - WWOOFing in rural Washington
Posted Jun 12, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Eyes of the beholder
Posted Jun 10, 2012 at Words and Roots
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May you live in interesting times ...
Posted Jun 8, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Travel Tuesday: New Orleans Crocodiles
Posted Jun 5, 2012 at Words and Roots
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The Space Between Thoughts
Posted Jun 3, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Travel Tuesday: Fall in New York
Posted May 29, 2012 at Words and Roots
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A Trip To The ER - And The Need For An Antidote To Multitasking
I had intended to open this post with a photo of a couple in progress log cabin quilt blocks. However, a trip to the emergency room squashed those ideas. There I was, cutting strips of fabric for the quilt, when the rotary blade jumped the plastic ruler and sliced straight... Continue reading
Posted May 28, 2012 at Words and Roots
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A Single Pink Daisy (Writing Rewards)
Posted May 25, 2012 at Words and Roots
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Travel Tuesday: Longji Terraces
Posted May 22, 2012 at Words and Roots
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