No Hurry in J.C.
Saturday, November 30, 2019

Yard Work

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Do you remember when I discovered my backyard leaking water into my Jersey City basement on New Year's Eve? Water was pouring in thro...
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Friday, November 29, 2019

Scavengers

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In October, something was happening with squirrels and corn in the backyard. It may be that the nuns grew the corn and the squirrels stole ...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Happy Holidays

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Los Angeles' train station was all decked out in holiday cheer tonight.
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Friday, November 22, 2019

Making Stuff

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Today's accomplishments! The mug is too small, but maybe you can't tell from a photo. The bowl is the right size for eating oatme...
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Friday, November 15, 2019

National Bundt Day 2019

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Today was National Bundt Day! I haven't celebrated for years , but today I made a Bundt cake and took it to work. The tunnel of fu...
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Sunday, November 10, 2019

Arrival

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September 12, Tokyo Airport. I mailed a small box to myself, containing work clothes, a few odds and ends, and some Japanese fabric from ...
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Tuesday, November 05, 2019

Fun With Ride-Sharing

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Last night, as I do every Monday night since the buses stop before pottery class stops, I used my phone to summon a Lyft to take me home fr...
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Sunday, November 03, 2019

Quirks

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I was reading up on my JC house this morning in an article from 9/26/1895. And now I have a new question. Or three. Where is my well? W...
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Friday, November 01, 2019

Funny How Things Work Out

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When I was a college radio dj in southwestern Ohio, I remember talking to one of the classical announcers who asked about my plans for the ...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Grocery Shopping

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Cashier at the supermarket a few blocks from my Burbank condo: "You gonna go home and watch basketball on TV now?" I stared at ...
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Marie Javins
An ex-New Yorker starts blogging with "No Hurry in Africa" in Uganda and Namibia in 2005, moves to Kuwait and Cairo to make comic books, circumnavigates the world for a second time in 2011, then just when she settles down to see what NYC and JC hold for her, finds herself unexpectedly off to Burbank for work.
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