Day 11: Three years ago today.

Three years ago today I was still living in North Carolina. I taught at Bennett College and my daughter was about six months old. I chopped all of my hair off around this time as well. I do that periodically in my life, but I am not very good with short hair. It looks good, but I am not good at maintaining it. C'est la vie.

Day 10: A favourite recipe.

Sweet potato biscuits with marshmallows are one of my favorite things to make. In general biscuits are rewarding because they are so easy, yet very rewarding. I have already made these biscuits twice this past week. I love them so much. I first made them for Thanksgiving last year; sometimes I use marshmallows and sometimes I leave them out (though I miss them when I leave them out). Recently, I have come to realize that cinnamon is my all time favorite flavor. I put it on a lot of stuff and when you mix it with sweet potatoes? How can you lose?

The last time I made them I used snowman shaped marshmallows (they were cheaper) and they actually worked really well because they are flat and they did not roll out of the dough while I was cutting biscuits. These aren't the best pictures in the world. I have been using my phone and sometimes they came out great and sometimes not so great.

Day 09: A close-up of my day.

Day 08: Three inspirational quotes.

My mom creates collections of quotes as part of her job as a book editor; so I have thought a lot about what makes a good quote. So hopefully, I will be good at this task today. I am taking it to mean three quotes that are inspirational to me...

"Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.”
George Balanchine

 In my films I always want to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things but to give people the desire to see.
Agnès Varda

"I love you mommy."
My daughter to me

(Picture Source: New York, 1936,Photo credit: Alfred Eisenstaedt for LIFE)

Day 07: A song for the day.

When Fun was on SNL last weekend I realized that they have three songs out and I like them all. I feel sort of silly for not connecting the dots that they are all by the same band, since the lead singers voice is somewhat unique. But anyway, my song for the day is Carry On.


Just a reminder that for the month of November I have been participating in 30 Days Hath November. In case anyone was wondering why I was writing about such random topics.

Day 06: A book I'm reading.

Right now I am reading Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet. It was a little daunting at first because it is 672 pages and it looks much longer than that. I love history and I love ballet so this book is a match made in heaven for me. It is really well written and thought provoking. For instance ballet began as a physical representation of geometry. I had never thought about that before, but it makes so much sense because many of the movements we do make circles, we move within a square, are very concerned about "our line," and dancers usually make interesting shapes on the stage as well. It is also amazing to make direct correlations with something that I presently do with the renaissance and the enlightenment. Check out this article about how Jennifer Homan's wrote the book.


(Degas Painting "The Rehearsal" 1873, source)

Day 05: My hometown.

Boulder, Colorado. Hippie Mecca of the past. Currently, a really expensive place to live.

 Right now I live in Denver, but we are planning on moving to Boulder in a few months. I think I prefer living in a smallish hippie-esque town over the "big city." Boulder has a bike path that winds through the entire city and last summer my daughter and I were driving downtown and she wanted to take a walk and I thought we should just park and walk down the path. Nowadays, in downtown Boulder you can't park for free. Luckily, I knew that because school was out I could park in the senior lot at Boulder High School for free! Yay! All sorts of memories flooded over me as a stood in my old parking lot. You'd never think that pavement could be so emotional! I took a picture to post on Facebook to see if my high school friends could identify where I had been that day, but I forgot about the picture so I included it here. You can see the Flatirons in the background. They are a rock formation that looks like ironing boards stacked against each other and they are on of things that make Boulder unique.