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Important Photo! Or, A Very Los Pollos Hermanos Chirstmas Posted on Dec 24, 2015, 10:12 am
When we asked my aunt about the ostrich in the yard next door she shrugged and said well, that’s the South Valley for you.

Current status: Albuquerque Posted on Dec 23, 2015, 8:12 pm
Goals for the next few days: stare at mountains; eat anything that comes with green chile on it; find Jesse Pinkman’s house; take blurry photos of luminarias.

Good morning, shortest day of the year. Posted on Dec 21, 2015, 11:12 am
Just a photo on this solstice morning.

View from the couch Posted on Dec 20, 2015, 4:12 pm
At home, applying thick layers of Christmas to everything.

Morning lights in Albany Park Posted on Dec 17, 2015, 7:12 am
Just a photo post. Winter mornings, Chicago decorations. Bungalows and cheer.

I Am a Cranky Old City Person Now Posted on Dec 14, 2015, 8:12 am
Of course then the second I go inside Macy’s I remember that department stores are basically garbage fires now, with all the racks crammed together and piled with clothes that smell like hot asphalt, all of it under a fug of despair and Katy Perry songs.

You will get a sentimental feeling Posted on Dec 12, 2015, 10:12 am
There are so many ways to punctuate that one line from Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree and it all depends on what song you think is being sung and whether or not halls are literally being decked and to what extent it's all just a hypnotic suggestion.

Now where was I Posted on Dec 9, 2015, 10:12 pm
I did all the things and updated all the updates and recycled all the recyclables and came up with a theory about how the cat in the last Hunger Games movie got home from District 13.

The damn Santa train Posted on Dec 5, 2015, 11:12 pm
Already I have about three dozen blurry pictures of holiday decorations. This means I am definitely becoming my grandmother and all I need to do now is print them up in triplicate and put one set in a photo album and thoroughly jumble up the other two sets and put them in a shoebox so that years later someone else can be bored into oblivion trying to sort them out.

Speedpost! Posted on Dec 4, 2015, 5:12 pm
The things you resort to when you do Holidailies: writing a rambling tumblr post in the half hour you can spare before you have to get dressed and go to the Book Cellar to do a group reading where you will be reading an essay that is, like this tumblr post, also written in the second person, and what is the deal with that, I ask you? And by “you” I mean actually you and not me.

Photo post: what I learned today Posted on Dec 3, 2015, 11:12 pm
Six am on a Wednesday is a good time to have your Christmas tree lights on. It really is. Go see.

What might save us, me and you Posted on Dec 2, 2015, 11:12 pm
How I felt today after the news, and what I heard on the drive home, and what I sang later. And how it helped.

Now the calendar's just one day and of course I am excited Posted on Dec 2, 2015, 8:12 am
Happy December 1st, the day when everything stops being orange and starts being red and green!