The Details

In which the smallest particles bring meaning to the universe.

Disney Princesses Have Ruined the Color Pink

September 2, 2010
By Elizabeth
Disney Princesses Have Ruined the Color Pink

Being politically motivated and standing up for my beliefs had an interesting side effect of making it difficult to choose a straw for my iced tea this morning. At my favorite locally owned coffeehouse, I purchased organic tea in a recyclable cup. Being the artful sort, I paused as I reached toward the cup...
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Striving for Balance

August 31, 2010
By Elizabeth
Striving for Balance

A Guest Post by ‘Shiny Bits’ blogger, Paul Merrill I love quirky products. It’s fun to cruise our local Whole Foods Market on a Saturday and taste samples from a variety of sometimes local small companies. Occasionally I take the plunge and buy one of their toothpastes or boxes of cereal. But for the...
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Into the Night

August 29, 2010
By Elizabeth
Into the Night

I have a terrible time writing in first person. It’s a long, dark walk into the night to find the place where you can spill yourself. It’s high and hard to climb. It’s where you exist as: “Me” but where you no longer belong to yourself. First person exposes you. The wind blows harder...
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Taking the Bagel

August 24, 2010
By Elizabeth
Taking the Bagel

The truth about life lies in this pat of butter. We can ask for what we want. We can even PAY for what we want. We can desire and expect it. But we won’t always get it. Here’s the bagel I had for breakfast at my favorite Milford cafe. I order it in this...
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Posted in Consuming Things, Facebook-in-it, Food and Drink, Four-legged, Humor and Rant, Object-ification, Other People, The Details | 6 Comments »

The Guest Book

August 19, 2010
By Elizabeth
The Guest Book

So, new ideas are bubbling up around here. I’m fanning my desire to have guest writers at Letters. So today I am going to create a new page called “The Guest Book” which will include bios of my guest writers, as they appear. It will also include my guest writer Wish List, with such...
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The Monochrome Summers

August 18, 2010
By Elizabeth
The Monochrome Summers

Shopping at Target for school supplies takes us into the arms of  August, summer’s last great hump. I smell the Ticonderoga pencil shavings already and summer’s great keening begins. The season is nowhere over, yet it is aging. Surrounded by the lemon-yellow-forest-green-cornflower-burnt-sienna colors swirling around me in the all-new-all-same-mass Crayola aisle. Even as I...
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Posted in Art, Busted Story, Consuming Things, Dream rambles, Outdoorsy Things, Ponderings, The Details, The Old Days, Travel | 3 Comments »

Hipstamatic, and Other Faux Nostalgia

August 15, 2010
By Elizabeth
Hipstamatic, and Other Faux Nostalgia

I’ve fallen in lust with Hipstamatic on my iPhone … All made possible because the iPhone 4 has a decent camera. Hipstamatic is the app that allows previously young people like me (who refuse to believe that status has changed) to believe that we can still be the great photographer we dreamed of being...
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An Hour of UnShopping

July 29, 2010
By Elizabeth
An Hour of UnShopping

I just got back from what I like to call “unshopping” — a painful and ludicrous part of consumer culture. This is when we de-stuff-ify ourselves. In this particular hour, I made four stops: To the church recycling dumpster, which takes cardboard and #5s, so I don’t have to throw them away. To return...
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Posted in Alcohol, Colin Phillips, Connecticut, Consuming Things, Eco-FAQ, Madness, Stratford, The Details, Work, beer | 5 Comments »

Time, Sculpted and Consumed

July 12, 2010
By Elizabeth
Time, Sculpted and Consumed

We have time, and we use it up. It is the ultimate commodity in a temporary life. In a creative space, it seems to waiver in form: great gaping hours of fearful emptiness, or ultra-thin slivers of panicked release. Between reading Jon Kabat-Zinn’s “Wherever you Go, There You Are” and Scoutie Girl’s latest post...
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Parenting Happiness: A “Magic Trick of the Memory”

July 8, 2010
By Elizabeth

I’ve been reading the article “All Joy and No Fun” from the New York Times Magazine with interest. I’m in a position to speak about the “joys” (or otherwise) of parenthood now that I’ve been in the thick of it for 16 months. Anyone who knows me can attest that I haven’t always been...
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Posted in Activism Means Act!, Colin Phillips, Family, Media, Outdoorsy Things, The Details, The Old Days | 12 Comments »

On Being an American Pacifist

July 4, 2010
By Elizabeth
On Being an American Pacifist

I started writing a long, kinda preachy post and then I just stopped. Here’s how I feel as a pacifist: I am a conflicted human in my American place. I often wonder if I am stupid and ignorant. There is no doubt I am grateful for the freedom of our lives here. And my...
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Posted in Humor and Rant, Life in America, Media, Ponderings, The Details, What's Called Home | 1 Comment »

Anxious to Return

June 23, 2010
By Elizabeth
Anxious to Return

My blog has stopped being what it used to be … out of necessity. For sometime now I’ve been keeping my fingers hunched over the keys, holding them back from all of the things I want to say. I am being watched, and no that is not paranoia seeping in with old age-ish-ness. It’s...
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The Unfinished Basement is Not Worth Examining

May 26, 2010
By Elizabeth
The Unfinished Basement is Not Worth Examining

So I’m just emptying the dishwasher this morning and number one son runs out the the kitchen and says: “Mom! I just saw this guy on TV! He says he can finish your basement!” “Oh yeah?” My mind is spinning. I start to do the math. Local news is on. Commercial jingles ring. TiVo...
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Posted in Colin Phillips, Consuming Things, Family, Humor and Rant, Object-ification, Other People, The Details, What's Called Home | 4 Comments »

The Look you are Looking For

May 9, 2010
By Elizabeth
The Look you are Looking For

Blogs are NOT what they used to be– which is mostly good. Fine– I’ll get the bad part out of the way quick– I’m typing this post on my iLhjvd (iPhone) which makes fir Manu typkys (many typos) and a cramp in my left hand. The good change is paired with plethora: ie. The...
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Posted in Scribble, Techno-wonder, Work | 4 Comments »

The Tweet is a Lonely Hunter

May 4, 2010
By Elizabeth
The Tweet is a Lonely Hunter

Today ScoutieGirl posed an interesting question about how the internet shapes and changes our creativity. She and I seem to agree that, like all things that are woven to the human form, the Web has the innate ability to remind us that we are alone in the universe. She asked: “as sister diane pointed...
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Posted in Art, Culture!, Deep Knee Bends, Experiential Blogging, Life in America, Love-ish-ness, Scribble, Techno-wonder, The Details | 1 Comment »

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