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My Exponentblog column for today. Enjoy! :)
–turning in grades yesterday. whew. another quarter of school all done. ate 2 do-si-dos and did some high-fives with the kiddoes to celebrate. –a blank page on my calendar today. still lots of stuff to do, but no classes, no appts, no meetings. woohoo! –crocheting. about 10 years ago my friend Mindy taught me how [...]
1) Gotta clean the bathroom floor–the workers who snaked the tub drain on Tuesday left some messy places in the corners.2) [while gazing at shower curtain map] Colombia–why does it have such a drug problem? Is it geography-related? And why is Chile such a freaky-long skinny country?3) Thinking about recent netflix, Maria Full of Grace. [...]
. On Saturday John and I attended a concert, “The Feminine Voice in Music: Past Meets Present.” It was an evening of music by female composers. All of the singers and instrument-payers were also women. We drove quite a ways to attend this concert–two hours up to Ventura thru LA traffic. Some highlights:–a poem written [...]
from 5ives…Five good things to absorb while you’re still young: 1. a lot of hippies are selfish, unpleasant, and not particularly funny 2. people who argue well aren’t necessarily right 3. cars are kind of a weird thing to spend a lot of money on 4. people will do things for you if you ask [...]
rocks Originally uploaded by pilgrimgirl. E&C went camping with Suz&Chris this weekend. They had a great time playing with fire, eating marshmallows, and piling up rocks. They came home smelling like hot dogs and dirt, with only a few ember holes in their clothes. Click on the picture above to see more photos of their [...]
Yah, a long week at our house. It’s finals week at UCI and we’ve had papers to grade and deadlines to meet and busy kids Oh, and I must tell you E was crowned with the title of ‘Master Artist’ this week by our elementary school district. Her duties will include a presentation before the [...]
Reading this on philobiblion today really made me think. Though we’ve refused to have any contact w/guns in our family (not even of the water-squirting variety), I think I need to be doing more to get the word out about gun control. Here’s a beginning: A child is killed by a gun every three hours [...]
This post is inspired by runlulurun and by my Mom, whose favorite color is beige…. When I first married I wanted an all-white house. White couches, white carpet, white duvets and fluffy white feather pillows. Prior to my wedding I hand-quilted an all-white ‘whole cloth’ quilt with intricate designs of overlapping rings and leaves. Staring [...]
Two weeks ago Sunday I was sitting in one of the wing-back chairs reading and I casually remarked to John, “When Toby becomes old and fat someday, I hope she becomes a lap kitty.” As I said this Toby walked by where I was sitting and stretched–a long lean cat stretch that only this petite [...]
The other day my Mom handed some xeroxed pages to me, saying she’d been going through the boxes in the garage. I looked down and saw two articles about cancer of the pancreas. Articles I’d found in my research in the Science Library at UCI. I was 8 months pregnant with C when Dad was [...]
Ckick the following link to learn more about Donato the one-legged dancer and other 19th-century amputee performers.Disability Studies, Temple U
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