Saturday, April 30, 2022

Fractal Fest - or, Chicago 2022 Reunion of Loyola Rome Center 1970-71

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Carol LaVesser Salinger and me - friends since age 8, and Rome roommates This is the picture I sent home a week into living in the dorm  in ...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2021

New Piano, Old Questions - How do we Learn? How do we Remember?

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How do we learn? How do we remember? And what has that got to do with “Pipeline,” the Chantays hit from 1962? My head has been full of such ...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021

"Poldark" Bingo

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  My dear niece Ashley suggested I try “Poldark” on Amazon Prime and here I am, well into season three, caught like a wiggling fish in a net...
Monday, February 1, 2021

Gifts from the Waters (Or How I Learned to do Sea Glass Crafts in Spite of Myself)

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Sometimes, when life throws you trash, you can turn it into treasure.
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Creating with words or boxes

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Q. When is it especially fun to write a blog?       A. When you get email like this one I received last week:
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Hügelkultur and our raised vegetable garden bed

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I’m not sure what started my husband’s venture into raised-bed gardening and  H ügelkultur , but I’m going to blame YouTube and our ...
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Monday, May 11, 2020

Music brings us all together

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Little did I realize, when I accepted a seemingly-simple Facebook challenge, that I’d be prompting an informal vote on my favorite mus...