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Walking with Orbison part four
I like like things together. Alliteration gets me giddy. Symmetry makes me smile. And I think know I’m obvious about it. This was taken in Nuevo Laredo while I was visiting my mother’s sister’s family. These things are an inch and a half tall. This is the second year I see these at Soriana. They’re…
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Another new year’s resolution blog and this past year in pictures
Every day, I want to do something I’ve never done before. I know this might sound ambitious, and it is, but it will surely lead to some interesting places. Did you notice how incredibly vague this resolution is? I’m not a fan of boundaries. That being said here are some of the things I want…
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Walking with Orbison part three
The leaves finally changed. This was actually at the Arboretum in Houston but I felt like it set the mood of this walk with Orbison. It also finally rained. It’s been raining all week. Orbison hates showers. He acts like I’m trying to stick him in a boiling cauldron and maneuvers himself so forcefully into the crevasse of the wall. But…
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I want to be a Redneck
Hear me out. I just spent five days in Deer Park, MD and it was glorious. You know when you go home for the holidays and after the forced interactions with distant relatives or worse, your mom’s friends, you feel more exhausted then when you got there? That is what I was trying to avoid.…
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International quote wall and horsemaning
My walls are naked. I don’t like clutter and I don’t even want to consider thinking about being here long, but my walls shouldn’t suffer because I hate having stuff. George Carlin puts it best. “Actually this is just a place for my stuff, ya know? That’s all, a little place for my stuff. That’s…
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Walking with Orbison part two
I reached the end of the street. It curved and I saw a lonely blue house on the tiny block that was made by the curve. It was the only house on that block and there was a field surrounding it. I got to see how alone and out of place it looked when I…
Jessica Puente 