Category Archives: Life is Good

Where I've been lately…

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Marisa

It’s been a light-posting week over here at Apartment 2024 (as well as over my my Reading Terminal blog).  I have a couple of good reasons for that.  The first is that I spent the last two days hanging out … Continue reading →

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Quarters and peanut chews

Posted on May 26, 2007 by Marisa

A couple of days ago, I emptied all the loose change from my wallet. It was getting unwieldy and difficult to close, and I figured I didn’t really need all those quarters, nickels and dimes. I had some bills, I’d … Continue reading →

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Light through green leaves

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Marisa

My desk is tucked into the far corner of my dining room, just to the left of the bank of windows that take up most of the external wall. I can’t see outside if I look directly in front of … Continue reading →

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Normally I don't like surprises, but I'll take ones like this any day

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Marisa

Saturday morning, just after 11 am, my cellphone rang.  It was my sister, calling to say that she and Green Mountain Grass were leaving soon and would be driving up to Philly for the day.  The bus is still busted … Continue reading →

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French braids and chemistry

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Marisa

Sitting on the trolley today, I watched a woman french braid her hair all by herself and was instantly taken back to my 11th grade chemistry class.  My lab partner in that class was a young woman with era-appropriate name … Continue reading →

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Socializing at Trader Joe's

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Marisa

I got out of class early tonight and headed over to Trader Joe’s to pick up some basic food items that keep things running over here in apartment 2024. Wandering through the store, I tossed ground turkey, lettuce, frozen spinach … Continue reading →

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What resolutions have to do with jumping rope

Posted on January 21, 2007 by Marisa

A couple of years ago, the young adult group at the Unitarian church I attend started talking about creating an alternative to the Sunday morning service. The idea would come up every couple of months, it would get tossed around … Continue reading →

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All I want to do is read

Posted on December 6, 2006 by Marisa

The demands on my time these days are pretty heavy (although I don’t know a single person out there who can’t claim this same sentence as their own).  The end of the semester is looming (I just paused in the … Continue reading →

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Mount Hood and Firestone

Posted on November 19, 2006 by Marisa

In the mid-1980′s, when my parents were looking for places to move in order to get our family out of Los Angeles, my mom had a dream. She dreamed that we were living someplace with views of a beautiful mountain. … Continue reading →

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Home again and Neil Young

Posted on October 3, 2006 by Marisa

Friday night I slept on a camping mat in the corner of a room that smelled like tempura paint, while drunken Iowa football fans caroused under my window.  Saturday night I found myself under a Pokemon covered head board, having … Continue reading →

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