In 2012, my theme was Live Lovely. And it was a full, lovely year.
I put together this photo collage as part of WordPress’s weekly photo challenge (from, you know, last week), and now that I’m finished I feel like this post gets dangerously close to the sort of blogging I try to avoid: the “here’s a record of my boring life” sort of blog. But pictures are fun, and these are the least boring parts of my year. Hover over for captions.
I drew a rhinoceros!
Daughter in Little Women living the dream of having two guys dueling for her.
Trip with the fam to Ohiopyle, PA. Cucumber Falls
Daughter and me.
Trip to NYC for letterpress workshop.
I learned letterpress in NYC!
Ask-Me Guide at Fallingwater!
I lost both of my grandparents. Here they are in NJ in the early 1940s.
Grandparents’ memorial at their lagoon house in NJ.
Saw Pearl Jam in Prague. Oh yes.
Praha! Took a Czech language class.
Saw The Boss in Prague. Oh yes
Met my Slovak relatives at family home!
Fall sabbatical. Art journal.
ph.d. in creative writing 
Nothing boring about this!!! So cool the art journal fall sabbatical and your ‘stint’ at Fallingwater… I hope 2013 brings you as much fun and happiness as 2012 did 🙂 Alexandra
Last time I looked at letterpress equipment and hot metal Linotype machines was over 30 years ago. Does my heart good to see it making a comeback… 🙂
– J.
Thanks, Alexandra & Jeff! I loved learning letterpress, Jeff. Totally made me rethink my relationship to my words when I had to search for each letter!
-kelcey