Other people write about Latvia!
One of the curious things about regularly visiting a small country where you don’t speak the language is that when you leave, it’s like the country–except for your friends– vanishes from your world. Good...
Author: Anna
Shopping in the Junior’s Department….(aka…You can go home again!)
When I was in Pasadena earlier this summer, I popped into the Pasadena Town Square Mall with my mother. It’s the mall that was built near my parents house in the early 80’s. If...
Reading the Book “One Day” Moments Before the Movie Came Out!
On my way back to Austin from my summer adventures, I read the novel One Day by David Nicholls. I read it in pretty much one giant gulp. While I had toyed with the...
FILM: BELLFLOWER (2011) is a Bad Bromance
The car from the film visiting Austin, Texas during SXSW 2011 Last week I saw the movie BELLFLOWER, which, based on the trailers and the general buzz about the film following Sundance, I had...
Eating in the airport
Thanks to a summer of discount travel, I’ve spent a lot of time in airports. Since I’m too cheap to buy a first class ticket–and too impatient to put up with long layovers–my frequent...
It’s so strange the places my pictures end up!
Every so often I try and figure out where my Flicker-housed pictures have recently ended up. They often end up in very unexpected places!
Here’s a smattering of the places where I’ve found my pictures since the last time I did this:
I Don’t Want To Go To The Dentist
When I was in high school, I had the most traumatic dental experience of anyone I know. Stop reading now if that sort of thing makes you uncomfortable. When I was 15 years-old, I...
The Space Shuttle I Knew
*If I hadn’t been too lazy to drag my laptop to a Latvian coffee shop with a decent Internet connection, this would have been published on July 21st. But I was lazy. When I...
Stepping through a NYC winter
I just found this photo while I was cleaning up my photo collection. It makes me happy.
A Video with Duke and Chuckie
Last time they were here, my Latvian houseguests made a video about Duke and Charlie. We lost Chuckie this past August (at the age of 10), and we lost Duke this week (he was...
