Darren Rowse Helps Me Redefine My Mission

March 22, 2009

In this post, after a period of meditation and a break from the blog, I reassess my blog’s mission and try to express it to my readers.

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Scarborough Baby – Chapter 3a

March 13, 2009

In Chapter 3 Harv visits her mother Angie and stepfather Ken. During her visit she rummages around in the attic in search of some old photos for her friend Philip’s art exhibition. She stumbles upon a diary her mother kept as a teenager, and realizes it must have been written at the time of her own conception. Unable to contain her curiosity, Harv embarks on a journey from which there is no turning back. In this post, the first half of the chapter.

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Review: Amazon Kindle – a conversation with my friend Cristina – part I

March 9, 2009

In the first part of this two-part interview series on the Amazon Kindle I begin a conversation with my friend Cristina, and she describes some of the benefits of owning this fascinating new gadget.

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Scarborough Baby – Chapter 2

February 25, 2009

In Chapter 2 of Scarborough Baby, Harv introduces us to her landlord and best friend, Philip, a kind and affectionate gay art lover with connections in the contemporary art world of London. In exchange for a very modest rent, Harv takes care of his apartment when he’s gone, and his cats. Philip encourages Harv to pursue her painting more seriously and asks her for any old photographs she might have for an exhibition.

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Introducing our Reviews!

February 25, 2009

In this post I introduce a new feature to the blog, Reviews. There will be reviews of books, products, design, objects, interiors, movies and more.

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Author Interview: Amanda Ackroyd – part III

February 18, 2009

This post concludes the series of interviews with Yorkshire author Amanda Ackroyd, and begins the series featuring weekly installments of her novel, Scarborough Baby. In this post, teaser and Chapter 1, in which we are introduced to the main character, Harv Marvin, a 24-year-old English young woman, her mother Angie and stepfather Ken.

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(Re)Arrange Your House With Twitter: The “after” photos

February 16, 2009

In this final post of the series, I offer some “after” photos of Cristina’s Upper West Side apartment with some closing comments.

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The Perfect Thing: Designing in my sleep

February 14, 2009

In this post I describe a dream I had while taking a daytime nap, during which I designed a sofa bed in my sleep.

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Author Interview: Amanda Ackroyd – part II

February 6, 2009

In the second segment of our three-part interview, Amanda tells me about why and how she wrote this short-short story, an exercise in the art of the precis.

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(Re)Arrange Your House With Twitter: Final Analysis

February 5, 2009

In this post I analyze the second and final week of Cristina and Lisa’s Tweets. They have been tweeting on their daily routine, on their use of their living and work space, and on how they experience these spaces. They both appreciate light and simplicity, and the new apartment they have purchased in New York is shaping up into a small haven for the two women. This concludes our social experiment with Twitter, and I think it has been very successful.

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