Fat Ballerinas

i never realized how much the image of a blue bird makes me happy. that is until i got my tattoos. now is see the images everywhere and they always make me smile. butterflies too. the fascination started just over a year ago, before my wedding and has grown since. [...]

actually “nits de MACBA” means nights of art at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. it is a pretty cool museum. we started out the night with some drinks on their rooftop terrace, with Magrite-esque umbrellas and candles in glass everywhere. i like a museum that lets you get drunk before the exhibit.

every place has its own smell, the doctor’s office, school, home. well a new city comes with its own set of nose ticklings. i never realized how much Phoenix just smelled like dirt, orange trees and asphalt until moving to barcelona. now this city knows what to do with smells…fly them in [...]

I don’t mean in the christian salvation way….I mean I saw Jesus walking down the street in a burlap tunic carrying a nice leather briefcase. Not exactly something you see everyday….a scrubby looking guy wearing next to nothing looking as though he has given away all his worldly possessions, well all but the briefcase. [...]

It is amazing how fast we have taken to the streets of Barcelona. Only three days and we were venturing out of Gracia to our first “Meet Up” event – a dance festival. It was an amazing, very well organized, outside free public event with about a thousand spectators (yup it [...]