- Symmetry is Sexy: Wes Anderson Most of my life, people have mis-spelled my name. Janelle. Janell. Jeanelle. The works. It’s horrible. When I’m feeling particularly sassy, I try to correct the mishap by telling the offender that my name is symmetrical. “J – E – N – E – L – L – E. They’re all Es. It’s terribly balanced.” […]
- Turning It’s about time I gave this blog a new name and turn it around some. Everything feels very new for me, these days. Changing this little baby seems right. [ photo by Hey There Spaceman ]
- Post-Secret Super Bowl Sunday It is Super Bowl Sunday, the Giants aren’t on, so I’m changing the subject. I found some Post-Secrets today that were interesting. I will write more real things soon. Stick with me.
- Return and Return and Return It is Wednesday. On Wednesdays I do yoga. Also, on Wednesdays the ladies in my house church have Craft Night. I skipped yoga tonight because Jeana made really wonderful coconut curry with her straight-from-Thailand-very-spicy stash of ingredients. I did not skip Craft Night. Here at the table there are two sewing machines ‘a flying. There […]
- Pause | Explanation (girl on swing is Arianna J.) But don’t worry, I will be back sooner than you think. Really.
- On the Road with Archangel Lu’s friends from college are hosting us here in Salt Lake City. They are very kind. I would like to introduce you to the framed delight on their living room wall. Also, Frederick Buechner signed their copy of this novel that I borrowed from their shelf in the guest room, On the Road With Archangel. […]
- Roadtrip – Leg Zion and her Narrows Tuesday morning we were (cue the Sheryl Crow song) leavin’ Las Vegas for Zion National Park. I am not much of a camper and this was my first National Park. I was rewarded with a three hour hike (wade) through the Virgin River and the Narrows of Zion. Lu and I had to hold hands […]
- Things I (Usually Do Not) Like: #1225 I usually do not like church signs. At all. But this one, I like. (HT: Holy Satire, Holy Observer)
- Things I Like: #180 I like mysteriously beautiful doors. They symbolize so many things. There is a house with a red door on my street that always strikes me. I want to sit in front of it and take endless Holgas of it with slide film and then cross process the colours till they shout. But I think sitting […]
- Comma Comma Comma (Comma), Chameleon I recently realized, with the recovery of last term’s graded papers, that only my female professors have endeavored to call me out in my overactive usage of commas. Their frustrated marks in pencil and red feel like marks of bizarre friendship to me. It paints me happy and I feel loved, as if they have […]
- day 9 / a day in Prague 5 [ is that a light leak? or my finger? oh well. ]
- Looking back on 2008 Resos I made some public resolutions in 2008. It was a good (and naked) thing to state them all out-loud. I think I will do the same, this year. But, before I do, I better take a second look at some outcomes of all the resolving. 1. Run in a race that I have no business […]