Visible Woman

The Visible Woman... plays. A friend who is older than I am and still working asked for advice about retiring. I couldn't think of muc...

The Visible Woman... connects. It's that time of year when I design a holiday card (or occasionally buy some) and then peruse a Micro...

Text of an actual postcard sent to us by a friend (RIP Al) twenty-eight years ago. When we did  things like sending picture postcards. I...

SXSW has grown to this gigantic amorphous thing that is not the same for any two people. Oh, you discuss other peoples' experiences as...

Whoa! I was just looking at Holidailies and wait, wait...am I supposed to post 32  times?? I'm such a rule follower. I feel compell...

It's over. The year. The 2012 Holidailies . It should be a time of new beginnings. Of new resolutions and resoluteness. For me it ...

The photo was taken in July. Shorts weather. Blackmail shop window, I think on South Congress. But that's not where I'm going toda...

I've been goofing off, reading in my easy chair and pretending to care about football, and in the back of my mind trying to think what...

Now comes that time of the year, that last few days on the calendar, when people start to say "Well, tha t's   over. Next year wi...

It is not that I never accomplish anything. Slowly, slowly I get things done. When we aren't out of town I make a little progress ma...

I almost never opt out of the mailing of physical missives to people during the holidays. I think I did in 2010, an odd and distressing f...

When I was a kid, we'd bound up on Christmas morning and see what Santa left (these gifts were never wrapped) and see if there was any...

Sometimes it's the simplest things. I'm giving myself a break from cares for the day. We exchanged gifts. FFP gave me a book. (...

This graffiti is in South Austin. On Monroe I think. The streets really are full of presents for me. When I'm not depressed and I walk...

After two Blood Marys and much chatter at the Headliners mid-day Christmas party yesterday I snapped this picture in the foyer mirror whil...

Well it's not that frightful. This is a window at the local Brooks Brothers store, I think, shot back in November. In any case, we did...

I don't have a little black dress. (The picture is a detail from the Blackmail shop window shown yesterday and that is a reflection of...

The wonderful Gail Chovan, designer and owner of the South Congress shop called Blackmail, does some fabulous windows. This Christmas it h...

I haven't purchased a single Christmas present. Oh I sent some fairly large checks to Colorado for my sister and brother-in-law and ...

Everything revolves around me. Or you. Depending on whether you are me. Or you. I have theories about things in the world. I concoct tho...