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Paper Flies Away!
Paper flying away is a beautiful spectacle, unless it's from your desk. People underestimate the power of a paperweight, and it's time they got their due! Like giant raindrops sitting on your papers,...
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Aw shucks! I didn't get YOU anything!
I will once again pontificate on the joys of good gift wrap, tags, and boxes, etc. In my prior posting on gift tags, I discovered that I am not alone in this insistence, that wrapping is almost as...
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Arms and Heralds
I once had a dream about my father, who in this dream had died as a Knight and was buried in a knight's stone coffin above-ground. He had left behind on top of his coffin for my mother, sister and me...
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Quit buggin' me!
Several years ago a composer friend asked me to write a libretto for his opera, subject my own to choose. I wrote what I still think is the best thing I've ever written, about bugs. Bugs in love,...
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A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!
When I was a kid, living in the Bahamas, I took riding lessons. I had imagined I would get some great, terrifying steed who would race me down the beach and throw me sky-high over a fence. Instead I...
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Tiny Things, Big Party!
Oh to be tiny and live in a tiny house and wear tiny petal gowns! To be astonishing but hard to find, transient but enduring, fabulous in every way! This isn't just a little girl fantasy, it's the...
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Oh My Bleeding Heart!
Ah, Catholic iconography! No other faith can do pomp and circumstance like Catholics can, let's face it. The scary-beautiful aspect of it all is intoxicating. I love the morbid names of the churches,...
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Gifts: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous!
Time to start shopping! Before you laugh at the animal art, I have a story to tell...I bought 2 monkey paintings for my 9-year-old neice and she shows EVERYONE! Such cute little paw prints and smudges,...
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A Trip to the Moon
I had a dream last night about a rocket. It had red velvet interiors and swinging waitresses (a la Austin Powers). I looked out the window and we had not left earth's atmosphere yet, so I asked one of...
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I'll Have the Tea and Crumpets
Hand towels...I've had a complicated relationship with them. When parents of my friends would have them they would drive me nuts, falling off the bars, tri-folded and impossible to re-do without...
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The Rivers of Lethe
As a coinoisseur of sleep, I know what it means to sleep on impeccably stylish pillowcases. They improve your dreams a hundrefold! Since that is my entire purpose in life, I recommend you put your...
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The Mouse Ran Up the Clock
Oh, the weight of time! It ticks and ticks until you go mad. It judges you, mocks you, decays you...so why not have a fabulous clock? They make time less foreboding and noisy. They will, however,...
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Grin and Bear
Ever since I read "Little Bear" (Maurice Sendak), I have been a bear acolyte. Aside from tigers, I most fantasize about being curled up with a bear, nestled against their stomachs and playing with...
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The Unwelcome Guest
Salome - the ultimate bad hostess and John the Baptist, the ultimate unwelcome guest... the images have haunted for centuries and I for one have always wanted to give a Salome dinner party, the head...
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"I brought you something Mommy."
Ahh, the creepy kid syndrome... Perhaps because we're not encouraged to think of children as anything but holy, the lure of seeing them as evil is too great. And the things they play with conjur the...
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Bring me my smelling salts!
Fainting seems a wonderful thing. I remember in school in the Bahamas there was one girl who kept fainting from the heat and I thought it was so terribly feminine and lovely. I wanted someone to dab my...
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Off With Her Head!
When I was a kid my parents had this African head statue that used to scare the bejesus out of me. It chased me all around the house, appeared at the foot of my bed, whispered in my ear and in general...
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"A Gentleman is Calling, Madame..."
The deferential butler, the suitor, the undertaker...all presenting calling cards to announce a most-important arrival. I adore calling cards as much as I adore tight bodices and fainting women.When I...
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Change your bookmarks to www.idreamedisaw.com! This site, designed by House of Tears Design, is now up and running! Hope you like it!
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