at the end of last summer, the family gathered on the edge of Idaho and Utah to see my paternal grandmother off on her journey from this wor...

seasons of 90 days each. seems like plenty of time. one quarter of a full circle, fair time for each mood of the year. what was I wanting to...

this draft has been waiting some time for this day. I'd been thinking for a while to rework it into a post, but something always got in ...

I like to look back at things my past self was thinking/writing about quite often. but all my old real paper journals are in storage right n...

I looked up the etymology of the word etymology a few days ago. and then I remixed that etymology into the title of my last paper-day paper...

for Modern this semester , I'm reading a book about marginalia. all the bits of writing added to books, in the spaces left unprinted, an...

fuel coffeeshop. a few Fridays ago. not pictured:  Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing , with accompany...

these are my folders full of sketches. (I want to say folderfuls . like handfuls or bucketfuls or something. can we make folderfuls a thing?...

has any one ever written about how headphones have done for music what widespread literacy and silent reading practices have done for books?...

just so you know, I am blogging about my summer academic reading over here . my post this week puts a ridiculous music video in conversation...

I used to have a little blue pencil sharpener. I kept it in an old emptied box-of-chocolates with my little-used colored pencils. perhaps it...

in May I attended a very fancy dinner party hosted by Texas Tech University Press. they served lovely food and had a handful lovely speaker...

the exciting mail I received the other week came in two fancy, important-looking black tubes. in one was a diploma conferring upon me a Mas...

the semester is just over enough that I can start getting reasonably excited and anxious and breathless about the next one. I am emailing pe...

I've mentioned before that I get a bit obsessed with notebooks. most of the blank ones I mentioned way back when are still empty , accom...

to this question I have no answers. now is too fleeting to ask questions about, isn't it? and as for what now ?s cousin  what next ?.....

fieldnotes , one of the sponsors for the tournament of books, decided they would send out a few prizes to some lucky people who happened to ...

LetterPress - Printing Kahlil Gibran from Callil Capuozzo on Vimeo . last week, on a tuesday just as lovely as any tuesday in February ...

I am in the middle of editing an index for a book about Texas wineries. when the book is ready to be published, it'll come out with o...