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I am busy folks. Busy gathering together a list and images of Velvet Verbosity’s best gift ideas for the holiday 2007 season. Yes, I am one of THOSE PEOPLE. The kind of person who gets impossibly cheery at the very thought of wrapping up a special gift for someone. The… Continue Reading Stay Tuned for the Velvet Verbosity Special Holiday Edition
Nick
Every year it’s the same thing. November comes to New England, bringing with it a bitter, gray cold. No snow yet to cover the dinginess, the dead grass, the naked trees. A low slate sky rests its belly on the rooftops and turns to darkness much too early at the… Continue Reading November OR "Velvet Verbosity is Getting the Hell Out of New England"
Dear Shirty McShirty, Was it only yesterday that I met you? Is it a dream that I once fancied fantasies of becoming the perfect, serene and infinitely organized counterpart to your beautiful madness? No. It wasn’t just yesterday. It was more than a year ago. Funny thing, time. It was,… Continue Reading Letter to a Man
Nick
Dear God, It’s me again. I know I can be a pest but I’m confused about some things. I’m hoping you’ll write back, just this once, to clear these things up. I’m not happy and you and I both know it, yet you’ve seen fit to hand me a situation… Continue Reading Dear God, It’s Me, Velvet Verbosity
I was out of town for Thanksgiving, and I thought I would surely find time to post, but it just didn’t happen folks. I’m re-acclimating to home and work. I’ll write soon. / Digg this / Stumble this
My ambitious plans for NaBloPoMo and NaNoWriMo have been sabatoged by illness, a broken bone, but mostly by computer troubles. My Mac recently crashed and the experts determined it was a hard drive failure. So, I forked over the dough for a new hard drive only to find that my… Continue Reading 100 Words on Material
I asked this question of some fellow bloggers over on the NaBloPoMo forum. Like, should I tell you, dear readers, that I blog in a bowtie and striped socks…only? Or that this morning I ate a double whopper from three days ago for breakfast? Or that I live in MaryMark… Continue Reading How Personal Should a Blog Be? OR "Velvet Verbosity Thinks This Blog is Dope Yo"
Nick
For all the Thursdays in November, and in celebration of NaBloPoMo, I’m going to pick a Henry David Thoreau quote and post it here, and YOU get to write whatever comes up from that quote. Start a debate, write a story, agree, disagree, w h a t e v e… Continue Reading Thursday Thoreau NaBloPoMo – Provocative
Nick
This week’s Etsy treasure comes from the Lady L Lovelies Victorian Etsy shop. At first glance you might think this is a breach from my normal style, and you would be right. It’s true, my name, Velvet Verbosity, might hint at a slant toward Victorian sensibilities and if this is… Continue Reading Velvet Verbosity’s Etsy Find of the Week – Handmade Lavendar Sachets
Nick
He is homeless, his address written into the deep lines of his face. We stand face to face over the opening of a trash barrel. I throw away a package wrapping, he digs through looking for scraps to cobble together a meal, or for redeemable cans for change. There are… Continue Reading Portrait #39 – That Which Doesn’t Kill You, Breaks You
