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The shape of daily life.

About Me

I am Christina Rosalie.

I started keeping this blog a few months after the birth of my son, Bean, when the world suddenly seemed very jagged and blurry from lack of sleep and the company of other online mamas gave some assurance that I wasn't going crazy. He is now 4, and a big brother to Sprout, who is exactly 4 years and 4 days younger.

Now this blog is a reason to show up at the page. It has become some kind of record of big and small things in my life.

A little about me: I am a writer and artist.

I am currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories.

I think about heartbreak, coffee, gratitude, chocolate, birdsong, joy, kissing, food, and words constantly. I am periodically smitten by wanderlust. I love where I live.

If you stop by & read here regularly, please comment. I LOVE comments. As much as I love lattes and dark chocolate. Really.

Email me at: christina{at}mytopography{dot}com

  • Currently into: baking bread, reading this book, and this one; local honey; this decadent ice cream, planning camping trips, going barefoot, getting tan lines, and making lists.
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  • 32 Things Before 32

    1. Read the New Yorker cover to cover every week. 2. Learn to bake bread. 3. Go berry picking. 4. Build Bean a treehouse. 5. Attend a writer's conference 6. Submit some stories. 7. Stick with a regular writing routine. 8. Start keeping a Molskine notebook again. 9. Go to a drive-thru movie with DH this summer. 10. Bike the state of VT 11. Run a 5k 12. Frame & hang family photos in the hallway. 13. Take Bean fishing 14. Plant seed starts. 15. Keep a nature journal. 16. Go camping with the boys next summer 17. Roast marshmallows in the back yard by the fire with the boys. 18. Paint some big canvasses. 19. Teach Bean to swim. 20. Book manuscript: finish it. 21. Plant sunflowers and hollyhocks and zinnias. 22. Spend a weekend in Quebec in the summer. 23. Get a season ski pass and take on black diamonds next winter. 24. Send paper mail more often. 25. Take the boys to the jazz festival. 26. Get back in the pottery studio. 27. Take Bean rock climbing. 28. See some classic movies. 29. Go dancing. 30. Learn to make pasta from scratch. 31. Make an organized submissions calendar. 32. Go to a concert.