two fell swoops

Something has awoken me from my blogging slumber.  Something that fills me with such passion that I have to post.  It’s not war.  It’s not unemployment.  It’s not even cancer.  It’s this:

I thought these things were temporary and would go away after the Ann Arbor Art Fairs.  A week later, I see they’re still here.  […]

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It was going to be our first dinner in our newly renovated kitchen.  In the days leading up, I pushed to make a big deal out of it and suggested a nice romantic dinner. That day, I spent most of the time finishing renovations and cleaning up and making sure everything was in place.
On the […]

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Happily, the people who renovated our house before us carried on the tradition of stuffing current newspapers into walls they closed up.  I thought I’d share this clipping from the October 25, 1967 edition of the Ann Arbor News, in which Secretary of State Dean Rusk compares antiwar protesters to Nazi appeasers.  Timeless.

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On the wall at my polling place today:

Sorry for the blurriness of my phone’s camera with the low light.  If you can’t read it, I’ll tell you it’s one of a few mock advertisements that some kids were allowed to put on the wall behind the voting kiosks at the Ann Arbor Community Center.  The […]

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A few months ago, we noticed a new restaurant going in where a short-lived Indian restaurant was on North Main.  I can’t remember what it was before then, but it’s one of those locations where nothing seems to stick.
The first thing we noticed was the name on the signage out front: “Seajoy’s”.  We thought maybe […]

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A year ago right now (during our Alkalai School project, I should mention) Andrea and I were lying on the side of the highway leading to Mt. Rushmore, where all the locals who don’t want to pay admission fees go to watch the fireworks display. Radios blared the standard fireworks “Proud-To-Be-An-American” mix and cars […]

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Andrea and I had gotten used to seeing this cute old man shuffle by our house at a snail’s pace pretty regularly. You know, one of those people who’s lived in their old house for years and has probably taken the same walk thousands of times. There’s a cute old woman down by […]

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I was still a little hungry after we came home from dinner tonight, so I went to the kitchen and fixed myself a little bread with peanut butter. Andrea followed me in there and started inspecting the contents of the containers of leftovers in the fridge until she settled on a bowl of cantaloupe. […]

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Last Sunday Andrea and I pulled an all-nighter in order to finish some very time-sensitive house renovations.  At about 4 a.m. we had lights on all over the place as Andrea nailed in shoe molding and I painted window trim. We had the radio blaring so we could hear it throughout the house. […]

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Last weekend, Andrea and I went shopping around for refrigerators. I say “shopping around” because at this early stage in our potential refrigerator consumption, we went to a big appliance mart intending more to see what was available than to actually purchase anything.
The young man who guided us around the showroom kept suggesting large […]

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