FIRST, I must apologize for the quality of these photos... I mean more than usual. I took these from my flip phone... yes, a flip phone. I just wasn't expecting to love this place so much, I was a very bad and unprepared blogger. A few months ago my favorite haunt, Tea Time, closed down. Ever since then my foodie heart has been...

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Colorado circa 1996; sister and grandma... i miss my grandma. Maybe it started in Colorado, when I was nothing but a bashful little toddler trying to follow her mother and 6 year older sister anywhere she could.  I remember following my mom outside into the courtyard after it rained, putting out my hand for her to place squirming little earthworms into my palm....

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Me and  a couple of goons from the original crew My goal this semester was to take classes that I would actually like and be excited to learn in. I think I have and I really, really hope it stays that way. This Soc class is important to me because I've always been sort of interested and confused in the inequalities in gender....

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You see that black spot on my glove? Yeah I burned it because I got too close to the torch. That piece of leather is completely solid now.. Welding class was never really on my radar... I just never thought of my self as the spark spitting, flaming torch wielding type... BUT THEN. Yeah,.. here I am. Standing in the shop wondering how...

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When I was really little, I went to the Renaissance Faire for a field trip. And it was a really hot day, but I remember being mesmerized by the glass blowers who somehow braved the heat of the Summer Sun not to mention the 2100 degree ovens. I remember wishing I could be like them and create such beautiful and delicate things. Fast...

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“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”  -Lewis Carroll I think I got lucky this year... For once I actually think I understand what it means to enjoy classes. People used to ask me if I liked what I was doing and I'd be like, "I think so?" But then gradually like a frog in a pot of gradually boiling...

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