march 15

i spent a very limited time on the computer this weekend, and it felt really great. taking little breaks like that are really important to me. besides being good for my brain, it also gave me time to read like nobody's business. for most of fall i had a reading dry spell. a drought, really. and i think a big part of it was because i spent so much time online. it can be super fun to be on the computer, but it can also take a lot of time away from my day. i am working on limiting my computer time so that i can feel fulfilled in my days.

in january, something snapped me back into reading and since then i've been on a book frenzy. i spent a lot of time on the couch this weekend, soaking up the extra hour of daylight, and finishing my book. it was great.

over the years

yesterday i threw a smashing party celebrating my dad's 65th birthday. i made a spread of really classic deli style food: sliced corned beef, pastrami, roasted turkey, rye bread, bagels, pickles, cucumber salad, cheeses, chips and cookies. we gathered photos from his years and displayed them all together. it was really something special.

i like thinking about photographs as archiving a life; what we choose to document, what we remember because of this form of self reflection. i also like the way that, in some respects, a life archives the development of photography, from black and white, to polaroids, to very faded color, all sort of sizes and shapes, rounded corners, yellow tinges, digital on printer paper, scans.

speaking of the development of photography, that photo up there was taken with my trusty polaroid sun 660, dusted off from 12 years of hiding in a closet and loaded up with resourcefully snagged 600 film. clicking the shutter was so natural, it all came flooding back to me. if you are ever curious about what camera i'm using or what type of film, keep on checking my flickr stream. i usually tag my photos with all that info. also, i heart flickr.