Category Archives: Place

Every Other Weekend In Cincinnati

24th
Feb. × ’10
By Sarah
There are seeds buried in the plain of childhood which later bloom into the pathways one takes in life.  One such seed took root during the weekends I spent with my mom in Cincinnati, Ohio; a fact I didn’t realize until many years later when I started sniffing my way like a hound down all [...]
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Travel Whisky

5th
Feb. × ’10
By Sarah
So much travel fare seems to treat travel as the concrete experience of places, people, events.  Go here, do that, eat this.  Top 10! How to!  Where, when, why: timetables, addresses, translations, names.  You will taste vinegar and you will see red phone booths and you will experience the gray established oldness of Europe.  Satisfied, [...]
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London Bound

24th
Jan. × ’10
By Sarah
Preparing for a trip is of a whole different order than actually going on it.  Preparing is nothing but feverish excitement and frenetic bouncy-ball skips from one possibility to the next.  In the trip-planning stage you move at ultra cyber-speed eating organic eggs and checking out vintage petticoats and petting urban goats and eating chicken [...]
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Winter

20th
Jan. × ’10
By Sarah
Winter is cherry pie  /  lugubriousness  /  The Swell Season  /  giddily soft blankets /  hoppy, deep-flavored beer that absorbs you  /  the crunch of grass  /  the melancholy ponds after the snow melts, half ice, half water rippling in wind  /  snow fields in bumpy quilted patches  /  hardened yellow grasses peeking up in [...]
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