Half Starts and Trails Offs by Meredith Purvis
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The Snowpocalypse
t’s the great blizzard of January ‘10, and it’s coming tomorrow. Some are predicting as much as 45″. We’re tucking in for the weekend. I hope you all stay nice and warm and have plenty of food and drink so that your forced hibernation is enjoyable. I’ll be drinking hot chocolate and working on homework. [...]
Stumbling across sheer happiness
I’m a pessimist. I don’t often expect happy little surprises in my day. But lately, I’ve stumbled across a number of them, from the pair of books my dear friend Ginny sent me to my new favorite ginger tea. This week I’ve had an extraordinarily high number of pieces of happy and I want to [...]
It may be a New Year, but the Christmas tree is still up
I’m not sure I’ve ever made a New Year’s resolution; not a real one anyway. Perhaps in random conversations about such things I’d chime in with a “yeah, I need to get more exercise,” or “being more organized sure would be nice,” but I never really meant it. Then this year, for some reason, I [...]
Snowy Day
Blizzard in Baltimore. Or so the headlines say. Needless to say, the snow is coming down quickly outside. There’s something about it that matches my mood. Having just wrapped up another semester and preparing to head to New Mexico on Monday, I’m seizing the weekend for the quiet it offers, a pause in the midst [...]
Rock, paper, blog
I’m working on my final project for the literary publications class, and I have to admit that though I struggled to come up with an idea at first, I’m moving along at a pretty good pace now.
Basically, I’m illustrating my poem called “How to Collect Things,” which is (as the name suggests) instructions to a [...]
The Inbetween Times
Have you ever known a person who had an amazing ability to help you put your life into perspective? For me, that person is my friend Stina, who I worked with at the Daily Press in Silver City, NM.
Stina dropped by for a week during her year-long travels around North America. She spent some time [...]
Old Tin Roof
This week in class we tried our hand at hard bound books. I opted for a long format (rather than the traditional 5.5×8.5 size that comes from standard paper folded in half “hamburger” style). I’ve made books like this before, and I wanted to explore a different shape. I also found this awesome textured paper [...]
Paper and Web
By far on of the most awesome books websites I’ve ever seen: http://www.tsspivet.com/
It’s for The Collected Works of T.S. Spivet, a book by Reif Larsen (his first novel, in fact). Now, I have yet to see the book in person (but it’s in the mail as we speak), but this website seems perfectly suited to [...]
Books abound (and look at these fancy new digs!)
(Note: Welcome to my fancy new Wordpress blog which Avelino finally helped me get off the ground. I’m looking forward to much blogging in my comfortable and versatile new home. And a big, fat thank you to Ave for his patience and determination, even though I chose a rather frustrating theme.)
Paper, scissors, thread, needle. These [...]