I spent the afternoon with big headphones—ones that cancel out the noise—to find that which is not noise for the end of 2008.
In keeping with this year where kthread became (more) eclectic, some transitions are spotty; all songs pertain to a significant person or event in the past twelve months. You’ll likely know who [...]

 

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Great Saturday mornings begin puzzling over vegetables I cannot identify (rutubagas?) at the Embarcadero farmers’ market at the Ferry Building in San Francisco:

From the green mystery vegetables, I walked to another bin and studied red rings, convinced root vegetables tell their histories like trees.

I found promising fruit,

and the dependable tumble of colored [...]

I realized this week that my sister Kat’s boyfriend Reid is fearless.
Reid climbs in his spare time, so he likes hanging off of cliffs with his fingernails, but now I know he will also brave a foot of snow to pick up his girlfriend’s sister (thank you, Reid) at the airport.
Here’s our ride [...]

A few years ago, I spent a summer in Santa Cruz. I look back on those full months and the sleepy, strange town where I helped children build bots, learn computer animation, walk through the Redwoods, assume the banana slug posture, and smile.

This time of year I always spend thinking deeply about what might [...]

Sailing through Coral Gables yesterday morning, I picked up this week’s CSA farm box to find tomatoes, greens, bok choy, avocado, sugarcane, and the first of the eggs:

My friends Jenne (here, Skyping with a friend in France) and Jess came over to help with the greens and make Abba gingerbear cookies:

Our friend Pilar [...]