BAM.

So I went totally neon the other day, which is always fun.  We live next door to the Pittsburgh Glass Center – literally, I was looking straight down through my living room window – and I noticed that someone had tossed out this huge pallet of mortar and blue (!) glass, [...]

I’ve been meaning to feature these for awhile (though I could say that about a lot of things at this point, more shoes included).  I got these delicious sandals at Victoria’s Secret a few months back, and I don’t regret it.  I know knee-high gladiators are a few seasons old, but that’s never stopped me [...]

It’s sooooo hot in Pittsburgh – it’s been in the mid-nineties all week,
and I’m on the top floor, and our window air-conditioner sucks.
I spend most days indoors, in my underwear, trying not to melt
into the furniture – or wearing things like this.

L-l-l-love this bodysuit – so breezy for summer (and the [...]

Okay, so there are actually no traces of snakes or snakeskin in my outfit, but I feel like a snake right now – transformational – so let that be enough.

So…I passed!  I have an MFA in Creative Writing.  Oh, the breadth of employment opportunities this will surely afford me (*cough*).  Either way, I feel a [...]

I wore this outfit on my last day of grad school – to my last creative nonfiction workshop, ever.  It was bittersweet.  We had wine and butternut squash, read from our favorite pieces, and laughed.  I made a raspberry cream cheese pie which was half-melted by the time anyone got to it, but the night [...]