And this is why I went from posts on how terrible maternity clothes are to a gap with no posts. Our little Kickies was born on October 2nd, emerging via c-section while Jack White’s Lazaretto played – but by the time she was nestled on my chest, it was Falling Down by The Deadlights –…
Category: Life
Blogger Recognition Award – Why I Started Blogging, and Blog Favorites
I was recently nominated for a Blogger Recognition Award by Lulubel from Tiny Love Bug. I really appreciate her giving me the nod – Tiny Love Blog is a really unique and entertaining site. They focus on relationships and advice, with multiple writers giving perspectives – perspectives that are often humorous. You can check out…
10 Worst Things About Maternity Clothes
Before I begin this list of complaints in earnest, I’d like to acknowledge that it is better now that we don’t “put all our clothes away and wear tents for nine months” as my mom described her experience with maternity clothes. (And Mom had five kids – that’s about four years of tent-wearing!) Despite the…
The Day in Photos: The Way I Tell Myself That Its Okay
Nearly everything I like has an element of randomness. My Instagram page wanders from outfits to dogs to Dallas in the sun; from the novelty of bar bathrooms to videogame conventions and places where I am foreign. But Instagram is one of the most calculated, most “intentional” (as the kids say) things I do. I…
The Week in Instagram Roundup – San Diego Comic Con
Hey kids, here’s the second experimental installment of my Instagram Roundup – this time covering Comic Con, and spanning from July 16 to July 23rd. I had only three days back at the house between returning from Portland and leaving for a work trip to SDCC, and I know I must have been tired, because…
The Week in Instagram + Bloglovin Roundup – Portland, Oregon Coast, and Washington
Here’s my week in Instagram pictures and Bloglovin mini-posts from Saturday July 8th to Sunday July 15th. No, that’s not exactly a week. But I’m cheating this one a little in order to make it span the entire trip to Oregon and Washington, and the wind-down day back in Dallas afterward. This was my last…
Punk Princesses and Other Familiar Oddities of Asia; Disobey Princess Jasmine OOTD
A few days ago, Fashionably Geek’s Punk Princess tees post reminded me of this alt Princess Jasmine shirt I picked up in Japan. This one is probably pushing the envelope just a little harder than the designs they featured, what with the electrical tape on the nipples and all.. (Thom actually advised me not…
Things My Cold Hard Capitalist Heart Would Miss if Our Country Lost Diversity
Have you ever lost someone, to death, or separation, or just to drifting away? Have you ever felt the enormity of that loss through a little absence of something – a coat that isn’t on its hook; the smell of a cologne that no longer hangs in the air when you wake up after he’s…
Mary, Hannah, Joan of Arc, and a Saint I Don’t Remember
When I was 16, I marched in Washington the day after the inauguration. It was the first time I flaked on a job, the first time I thought of Thom from far away, and the place that I found Hannah. There I am, lifetimes away, staring out of a picture in black and white that…
Sherlock Holmes Exhibit at Perot Museum, Dallas ( #PerotMuseum )
If I visit a museum, and I’m not allowed to take pictures of it, did I still visit a museum? I’ve been grappling with that question, and also with the question of whether it is morally wrong to sneakily take pictures anyway, for years. (Also, what is the likelihood of being caught?) In this particular…
Every Hotel Room
About a year ago, I realized that work travel was going to become a part of life for me. While it was all still new and exciting, I decided to take a photo of myself every night I was in a hotel room, for a year. I didn’t necessarily have a strong direction at the…
Rika Confesses 