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arlusk's shared items in Google Reader- Welcome to the Storyverse: A Catalog of the Implicit Links Inside Books
- MPD: Don’t Let Your New iPhone Get Stolen Right After You Buy It
- 10 ways colleges encourage students to ditch their cars
- Wedding Graduates: Colleen & Matt
- You Are What You Eat
- Lanes
- 'The Pursuit of Happiness': How Do Communities Make Us Happy?
- putting a notion into action [recipe: chocolate malteser cake]
- Perfect Iced Coffee
- Nuts For Nutella
Author Archives: arlusk
God love them: Blue Shoes
It is a generational nightmare: we are a group of women who fell in love with Carrie Bradshaw’s blue shoes. A stunning cobalt blue satin heel with a delicate wreath of glittering hardware. A veritable f**k you pump. The proverbial … Continue reading
A Different Kind of Pre-Marriage Counseling
In case you haven’t guessed it yet, David and I aren’t really of the religious nature, which means we’re not having a religious wedding, which means we’re not doing any kind of traditional pre-marriage counseling. However, as a member of … Continue reading
Joy.Cheer.Adventure.Gratitude.
We’re heading to New York tomorrow to celebrate our alt-family Christmas. This year we made a promise that we would chuck commercial holiday-isms to the wind and focus instead on recharging our souls and getting back to basics. And while … Continue reading
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Gift-mas time is here
I’m not good at gifts. But I do have friends and family who are really great at picking out just the right gift, so I know a little about what these “good gifts” should look like. This holiday here are … Continue reading
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Playing Santa
There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus. – Bob Phillips I think that may have been one of the first times I knew David and … Continue reading
A Written Affair
One of my favorite holiday traditions is one that I learned from my mom. At our house, holiday cards surrounded the door frame from our living room into our kitchen. I always felt that when I walked through the cards … Continue reading
Food that Means Something
In the weeks since our fridge has been out of order I’ve eaten out a lot. Combine that with the rich fare of the holiday season and I’m feeling a bit nostalgic for comfort food. For me, that will always … Continue reading
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Ciao Bella!
Tonight we dipped into Pasta Mia in Adams Morgan–and if you know anything about this restaurant, it’s not a place people normally “dip” into. The line outside is usually historic and they don’t even open until 6:30 PM on weeknights, … Continue reading
Holly Jolly Christmas
Happy holiday cookies from my pal Aimee Peterson There are some things that make me feel unabashedly Christmas-y and the brilliant reds of the season are one of them. Luckily, these cookies from my friend Aimee get most of their … Continue reading
Dinner guests
Last night I had a beautiful dinner with my pal Nikki Rappaport on ScoutMob’s dime. ScoutMob asked a question: if it could be anyone, living or dead, who would you bring to dinner? The winning reply got dinner with food … Continue reading
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