lululu

Yes, I finally got around to rotating the masthead/backdrop. You may remember this one from fall 2006. (Has it really been so long? Remember puddledog?)
Seized by a fit of online-life-chronicling productivity, I’ve also created a few new albums in gallery, one general summer album featuring pictures from Bryan’s first climbing trip in a few years, [...]

Lululu’s got her new winter clothes on*, and boy is she excited!
You may ask, what’s so wintery about flying a kite on a green hill in the sunshine?—to which I say, move to California. It is 40 degrees outside at the moment (albeit sunny, and warming up to the mid-60s by the afternoon), and [...]

Well, it’s been quite a journey, folks! Sure, I struggled a bit early on, and put up my share of ridiculous cop-out posts (like this, and this, and this). But overall I’m quite pleased with the results of my slightly psychotic daily post commitment.
In high school I’d write my activities on my wall calendar [...]

I’m about to leave town—more about that later—so Bryan* and I went out to our usual vaguely special occasion, nice-but-not-too-nice dinner joint, Sushi Ko. As we slurped down our sublime yellowtail, etc, I noticed that I had just finished four of his sentences in a row. Example:
B: “He clearly appreciates the finer things in life, [...]

The picture at the top is from Yosemite, about a year ago. Here’s the original. I am actually zipping up my coat. But I could swear it’s navel gazing.
Puddledog archives will remain intact and online, collecting comments from random passers-by. So you can access at any time your favorite teaching haiku, rant about how busy [...]

What. Is. Up?
The launch of a new blog (the birth? the christening? the presentation to society?) demands the sort of monumentally clever and wry-yet-moving post that intimidates me to the point of severe procrastination, so I am just blazing right through the performance anxiety and giving you the sort of first-draft writing you have come [...]