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Yearly Archives: 2008

Hi! Okay, you are getting major points for your emails these days. Really, I super duper appreciate it. Also (and I don’t know if I should tell you this by email or not): I’ve had a couple of dreams about Diane since I got here. Which was one of the catalysts for me feeling so […]

Hey Screensaver, Hil #2 aka Hil B is completely showing me up in the email department so I feel that I should send more updates to you , and feel free to post – provided that you fix my mistakes. Look I’m using punctuation and everything. Damn Spanish keyboards. I survived the plague and am […]

Dear People Who Read This Blog, As you may know, my name is Hilary Burgin. I love the Canning-Millers more than most things in the world. I might go even go as far as to say that I love them more than I love chocolate and Kimballs. If you know me at all, you know […]

This guy, a-flop on my deck, looked dazed and confused so I thought I had all the time to take all kinds of angles, but after the fourth shot he disappeared. He vanished so quickly and so silently I wondered if I’d imagined him.

This post is for rakkity who likes to keep track of fall in New England. Sorry, no heron in the bottom photo. I’m always looking but I guess he or she found another place to feed. The first picture was taken at our local gas station.

Hi there. I’m so, so, so sorry I haven’t called. I really want to, and keep not getting my shit together. I have to go buy a phone card, so reaaaally I’m going to do that today or tomorrow, and call you tomorrow. OR get SKYPE because I LOVE IT and then you can see […]

Long time a child, and still a child, when years By Hartley Coleridge Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived like one not born to die; A thriftless prodigal of smiles and tears, No hope I needed, and I knew […]

I like the almost not there quality to this photograph, how the house resembles a faded watercolor, as if there are lots of possibilities for change. So different from my normal need for sharp focus.

No, it’s not Tuesday but when I opened my youtube page this was recommended based on my viewing habits.

The blonde Hilary, who’s in Sevilla wrote this: Today was the first day of classes!! this is what my schedule look like – Mon and Wed 1030-1150: international marketing (in English) 1200-120: Spanish civilization and culture (all in Spanish) 130-250: Spanish phonetics and phonology (all in Spanish) Tues and Thurs 12-120: Spanish contemporary literature (all […]

Hilary wrote me from Mexico and I didn’t answer her right away, so when I saw her parents they indicated she wasn’t going to write back until I wrote. I jumped on my computer and fired off a quick reply, she replied with pages of text, I didn’t reply and then she wrote back: “We […]