You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again. -Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

Dear Dallas, You win. I came here in May 2011 begrudgingly, because I honestly had no better choice. I probably shouldn’t admit that to you, but it’s the truth. I needed out of DC for a variety of reasons and you were the only option that presented itself to me. I grew up in you, [...]

It’s totally weird living in the city where I grew up. I know for a lot of people it’s completely normal, even expected, to return home after college. Or never to leave at all. Thing is, I didn’t anticipate coming back to Dallas. When I left, I intended to leave for good. I shed my [...]

2.26.12, a photo by Paige Weaver on Flickr. on a run through Fair Park. it is very eerie without the Fair or some other event going on

2.20.12, a photo by Paige Weaver on Flickr. scenes from a twilight run

2.4.12, a photo by Paige Weaver on Flickr. driving home from an impromptu Saturday afternoon do-over of Friday night. Saturday was wildly more successful than Friday

1.24.2012, a photo by Paige Weaver on Flickr. picked up pho during a torrential downpour. my pants were soaked after the 1/2 block there and back.

1.23.12, a photo by Paige Weaver on Flickr. scene from my evening run my favorite building in downtown Dallas

1.19.12, a photo by Paige Weaver on Flickr. after picking up Cane Rosso pizza to go, driving through downtown Dallas

1.16.12, a photo by Paige Weaver on Flickr. 5 mile run around White Rock Lake on MLK Day