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Sep 13, 2022

Folderol | Apple iBook

It was during an NBC Must See TV commercial break in the autumn of 1998 when I first saw the Jeff Goldblum iMac ad. I looked up from my Packard Bell in mid-dial up connection to the America Online server and saw the dazzling Bondi blue monitor. I was smitten…

Essay

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Folderol | Apple iBook
Folderol | Apple iBook
Essay

13 min read


Sep 13, 2022

Folderol | Tween Painted Ceramic Turtle

Ah, summertime! For kids giddily tearing out of school buildings as the chorus from Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out” blared out of car windows from FM radio on the last day of classes, summer meant 10–12 weeks of blissful freedom. For single working mothers with school-age children, it meant scrambling to…

Essay

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Folderol | Tween Painted Ceramic Turtle
Folderol | Tween Painted Ceramic Turtle
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Sep 13, 2022

FOLDEROL | My Adventure in Mother Goose Land

One of my earliest memories is reading an oversized hardcover edition of Holly Hobbie’s Nursery Rhymes while sitting in my low, chrome-plated stroller parked in the middle of the living room. The lap-sized book had a caramel brown cover and was filled with sepia-toned illustrations of girls in bonnets and…

Essay

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FOLDEROL | My Adventure in Mother Goose Land
FOLDEROL | My Adventure in Mother Goose Land
Essay

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May 12, 2022

s p a c e s: overnight stay

Anywhere, U.S.A. c.2010 It’s check-in time at the motel we’re stopping at for the night. Where are we going? Where have we been? We don’t recall. We only know that we’ve been riding in a car for hours and now it’s time to stop and rest, our bodies jangling from…

Essay

33 min read

s p a c e s: overnight stay
s p a c e s: overnight stay
Essay

33 min read


Jan 21, 2021

s p a c e s: pleasure seeking

place: pleasure island, lake buena vista, florida time: c. april 2002 Hey, party people! Who’s ready to have a Good Time out there? Pull on your pleather pants and platform sandals ’cause we’re hitting the clubs downtown tonight and partying like it’s 2002! Sorry, that should read that we’ll be…

Disney

63 min read

s p a c e s: pleasure seeking
s p a c e s: pleasure seeking
Disney

63 min read


Dec 10, 2020

s p a c e s: dry heat

place: infrared sauna time: c. 2016 Everybody ends up here eventually — naked and alone, inside a wooden box. Okay, maybe not specifically here, which is an infrared sauna at a spa in midtown Toronto. Seduced by promises and possibilities of a relaxing touch-free, people-less experience that might take the…

Wellness

16 min read

s p a c e s: dry heat
s p a c e s: dry heat
Wellness

16 min read


Nov 21, 2020

s p a c e s: records & recording

place: montgomery county courthouse, montgomery, alabama time: c. 1990 Welcome to the Montgomery County Courthouse and Administration Building in historic downtown Montgomery, Alabama. Is it in the heart of the historic district? Write-ups about places frequently pin destinations as being in the heart of a larger location, which stirs up…

Essay

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s p a c e s: records & recording
s p a c e s: records & recording
Essay

15 min read


Nov 21, 2020

s p a c e s: a day at the outlets

place: orlando vineland premium outlet time: c. 2004 At the end of the line for the I-Ride Trolley, we reach our destination for the day. Here we are at the Orlando Premium Outlet, just off International Drive and Interstate 4. Look across the parking lot and wave to the tourists…

Shopping

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s p a c e s: a day at the outlets
s p a c e s: a day at the outlets
Shopping

19 min read

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