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Say yes

January 21, 2004

Wall for rent, off Melrose Ave.

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Gray skies are gonna clear up

January 16, 2004

View from the Getty Center lawn There was one day last month when, if you stood at just the right spot at just the right time, you could see all the way to downtown Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean without turning your head or squinting your eyes. The tangled highways, towering buildings and endless […]

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Childlike wonder

January 14, 2004

The Wound & Wound Toy Co., Melrose Ave. “We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.”

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Rockin’ around the Christmas tree

December 18, 2003

Rima and I rescued a tree from the lot last night. He is so Charlie Brown Christmas Tree that we fell in love instantly. We had to take him home. LAUNCH PHOTO ALBUM

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You belong in the zoo, the San Diego Zoo

October 14, 2003

Our Saturday was half road trip, half field trip. Rama, Sidra and I drove a couple hundred miles to the San Diego Zoo. They played Connect Four, while I bopped my head to the Shins. We took turns dancing and making faces at people passing by on the freeway. At the zoo, we picked out […]

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The blue period

February 20, 2003

walls painted like skies at the blueberry cafe mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the blurriest of them all? “goodbye,” says the suitcase to the chair. “i’m leaving you.” lightspeed ahead, or faster than normal on my way home all photos taken with lomo lc-a, test roll #2, and an unsteady hand

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The proud aunt

November 18, 2002

i’ve borrowed a puppy to shamelessly plug, since i don’t have one of my own. everybody, meet esther, quite possibly the world’s sassiest dog ever.

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He loves me, he loves me not

October 8, 2002

a summer’s day at the local nursery (?)

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Three skies

September 24, 2002
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Will the real Wonder Woman stand up?

July 13, 2002

the resemblance is striking, no? this morning, i rescued wonder woman from a yard sale. she was trapped in a mattel box on a dusty shelf in a dirty yard, and i had to take her home with me. it seemed a funny twist of fate as just last week i’d been reminiscing about my […]

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  • I'm Christine, and this is a slice of my life—a sweet, rich, wildly indulgent slice that would taste really good with a scoop of Breyers vanilla bean ice cream. Read more >>


  • I run a darling, friendly, little graphic design studio.
    I look on the bright side.
    I take photos. Lots of photos.
    I wish on stars and on websites.


  • I built my first web site 7 years ago and got 15 seconds of fame. (It changed my life.)
    I launched, then relaunched, an online magazine.
    I admitted to several embarrassing crushes.
    I consumed more bacon than any human should and lived to tell the tales.






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