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Protected: Pat to Ida: 1 July 1944

September 2nd, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Protected: Pat to Ida: 25 June 1944 (letter 1)

August 25th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Protected: Bob Comstock to Pat: 27 April 1944

July 28th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Protected: Ida to Pat: 26 April 1944

July 22nd, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Protected: Aunt Edith to Pat: 21 April 1944

June 23rd, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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The Arsenal: 26 May 2009

May 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Rain;
The library;
The Dexateens’ Singlewide

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Tags: books · fiction · house · music · self · The Arsenal

Protected: Pat to Ida: 12 April 1944 (letter 2)

May 22nd, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Oceanside storms: 1913 vs. 2008

April 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This vintage postcard pictures a “storm, Oceanside, Calif.,” and is prettified with green and blue washes of watercolor. Storms at sea are quite a bit darker than this, but I imagine there wouldn’t be much of a market for a postcard that had dark and forbidding beaches on its front. The postmark on the back of the postcard is 1 September 1913 – for a look at a storm at the Oceanside Pier nearly a decade later, see the shot I took – below – in December of last year.

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Protected: Pat to Ida: 31 January 1944 (part 2)

February 1st, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Things I heard while lying in bed this morning:

January 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The clickety-clack of the rear claws of one of my cats running down the hallway into the bedroom to find the source of the thud…

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Tags: house · politics · self