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the time has come...

...to retire this blog. new chapter book, new city (as of tomorrow) and a new mode of note-taking (on paper). 

it's been fun but three years (as of yesterday) is enough tumblr for me.  

thanks, followers!

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an oldie but a goodie c/o @daklatt. :) one of my favorite ornaments! #noodles

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the best little photo bombers... #xmas (at Spring Valley)

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do work @jdebling! #hohoho (at Spring Valley)

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1920s themed Christmas party with @jdebling: commence. #peacock #featherinherhair #pocketsquare #flapper #fishnets (at The Seelbach Hilton)

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for @ritaelise ❤❤❤ (at Intelligentsia Coffee)

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found it! #snow (at Lincoln Square Neighborhood)

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jihad! #chicago #christmas (at Christkindlmarket)

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ALL ABOARD! (at Monticello Depot)

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"there will always be many who will choose to be masters of their own work & in their own workshops rather than masters of other men working under sub-human conditions, that is to say conditions which deny them intellectual responsibility."

Eric Gill Essay on Typography, 1931. 

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cricket is an #illini fan.

[pinkypoo666]

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University of Illinois Girl #ILLINOISarchives circa 1907 c/o http://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/index.php?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=4898

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so this happened. #americangothic

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"Now my goal is simpler. I want to be happy. And I want comfort--nice clothes, a nice house, good music and good food, and the feeling that I'm doing some little thing that matters. I'll vote and I'll give to charity, but I won't give myself. I feel a sudden desire to buy land--not a lot, not as a business investment, but just a small plot of earth so that whatever they do to the country I'll have a place where I can go--a kind of fallout shelter, I guess. As some people prepare for their old age, so I prepare for my 20's. A little house, a comfortable chair, peace and quiet--retirement sounds tempting."

-Joyce Maynard

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cricket goes in a pumpkin! #happyhalloween 🎃🎃🎃

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the most incredible view of #louisville. photo credit c/o @jdebling.