Dogs

Banjo and Lefty

January 21, 2012

My little sister, Bubs, is mischievous. But she also has a very big heart. When she was about 13, she started secretly leaving out milk for a stray cat who roamed the village. Mum wondered why this mewing cat, nicknamed Mrs. Tiddles, kept showing up at her front door, but, being a fairly clued-in parent, [...]

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Dog + Beach = Bliss

November 5, 2011

One of the best things about living in California is access to the beach. Specifically, the kind where you can let your dog run around off-leash. It’s doggie heaven for Banjo, and blissful for us. I can’t think of a better reason to voluntarily wade up to my thighs in jeans other than to teach [...]

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Canine Design

October 18, 2011

<– See this dog? I make no bones about the fact that I am guilty of anthropomorphism to the nth degree – Banjo is the canine love of my life! I recently redesigned the graphics (banner, avatar, favicon, buttons) for my dog blog, Shyhound.com. I’d always used a strip of red for the banner, evocative [...]

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All the Glamour of a Hollywood Cowgirl

June 21, 2011

Day 9: Socorro, NM to Gallup, NM – 337 miles / 542 kms It was with some tongue-in-cheek trepidation that I chose a town called Socorro to stay in for the night. ¡Socorro! is what you cry out in Spanish when you need help. Not the Would you mind giving me a hand with this? [...]

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Finding Myself in Texas

May 27, 2011

Day 4: Shreveport, LA to Austin, TX – 360 miles / 580 kms What a grimly amusing surprise this morning – our car covered with the bugs from last night’s Mississippi River crossing! Poor little Vlad-the-Chevy-Impala – it can’t be pleasant having squished critters all over your face. Still, it’s a small price to pay [...]

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Crossing the Mississippi

May 23, 2011

Road Trip Day 3: Trussville, AL to Shreveport, LA – 467 miles / 752 kms Another late start this morning, this time because I couldn’t resist Skyping my family – mum in southern Spain, dad in Los Angeles. So far, my iMac is surviving its journey in the boot (trunk) of the car! That’s obviously [...]

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Leaving New York: Brooklyn to NJ

March 28, 2011

Odometer: 13,666 Road Trip Day 0: Brooklyn, NY to Swedesboro, NJ – 107 miles / 173 kms After a flurry of packing, Brooklyn Freecycling, cleaning, landlord negotiating, and two nights on two deflated air mattresses made only marginally more comfortable by the smelly old duvet taken from Shyhound’s dog bed, we were ready to set [...]

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For the Love of Dog

January 13, 2011

I’m in the middle of designing my newest blog, Shyhound, and am up to my eyeballs in code and colour and all things dog-related. I came across a something so lovely that I thought I would take a break to share it with all you dog-lovers out there. It’s a Native American folktale, a simple [...]

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Dog + Prospect Park

December 22, 2010

An off-leash walk in Prospect Park on a beautiful winter morning.

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PAPER magazine / K&M Bar

July 4, 2009

This is a review that I wrote for PAPER magazine back in May 2006. Sadly, K&M bar has since closed, but it was a cheerful shabby-chic spot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. K&M There once was a pierogi place called Krystyna and Margaret, which was itself probably once a 1920s Williamsburg barbershop. Now it’s a bar named [...]

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