Dear Santa, I already have everything I could possibly want. Please make someone else’s dreams come true this Christmas. Love, Dixie
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Traditional
Posted by Dixie on 5 December, 2011
http://dixiestix.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/traditional/
Stop and look up
What a day! I felt the tingle as the forces of the universe aligned at 11:11:11 today on 11/11/11 and granted everyone in my timezone a wish* right then. Or maybe I didn’t. I may have been rewatching the best college story ever delivered and giggling like an idiot. (That’s a step up from the [...]
Posted by Dixie on 11 November, 2011
http://dixiestix.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/stop-and-look-up/
Can’t we all just get along?
Astute readers of my blogular warblings over the past decade or so may have some hunches on why things have been so quiet on my public soapbox. Relative newcomers might point to social media and the allure of sharing short form blogs through the various sites that facilitate sharing quickly. You may all draw your [...]
Posted by Dixie on 8 September, 2011
http://dixiestix.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/cant-we-all-just-get-along/
How I learned about life from IKEA
Santa brought me a chair for Christmas, where I am sitting right now as I type (though possibly not as you read). It’s my favourite chair, an exact replica of the chair I had back in LA. It is a Poäng chair from IKEA, my favourite chair from my favourite home furnishings supplier. Despite its [...]
Posted by Dixie on 27 December, 2010
http://dixiestix.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/how-i-learned-about-life-from-ikea/
When I don’t like Christmas
Three times I have been prodded, and so it shall be. I am bound to blog, unlucky are ye. I usually like Christmas. A lot. This year a series of mildly irritating circumstances in the immediate runup to the holiday reminded me of all the stuff I really despise about Christmas. I’m lucky that although [...]
Posted by Dixie on 24 December, 2010
http://dixiestix.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/when-i-dont-like-christmas/
On ageing
Last week I joyfully celebrated my 30th birthday. My sister was in town with her husband, and I enjoyed several days of being showered with attention. Thursday we went out for sushi after stopping by to see the knitters at Brooks, Friday a couple friends hosted us for dinner and drinks, Saturday we headed out [...]
Posted by Dixie on 16 June, 2010
http://dixiestix.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/on-ageing/
