(29 of 50) Call me “Four Eyes.” Actually, I have bifocals, so that would be “Six Eyes.” One part of aging is the inevitable need for glasses. This started for me in my mid-30s when I was in graduate school and reading a lot. But I didn’t believe it. I look back and see the [...]
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(28 of 50) Forgive me for just a moment, for not being fluffy, funny or pointless. This is a particularly important day for me, historically, as an American and as an Air Force brat. Today is June 6. On a pretty day in summer, 64 years ago, a whole lot of men, young and old, [...]
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(27 of 50) (not to be confused with Greta Thragnusdottir’s magnum opus – a much later but fragmented text which is considered to be the first Icelandic historical romance) I suppose it is time to begin the story about how I discovered these Icelandic texts. I had always meant to reveal them in appropriate academic [...]
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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Memorial Day Weekend, originally uploaded by tigerwillow. (26 of 50) Some days, you have to work. Some days, you need to play with Sculpey. And sometimes you just have to ride [...]
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(25 of 50) June is my favorite month of all. Not just because my birthday is in the middle of the month, but because it’s usually the beginning of summer holiday, it’s warm and sunny (or stormy) but never cold. Rarely is it cold. (I know it’s cold int he mountains and elsewhere in June, [...]
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(24 of 50) It’s been a week on the new system for sp*m removal, and it seems to be working. I have missed several days of blogging, but then again, one strives for quality not quantity, right? Although, I am reminded of something a very good friend says (and maybe he’s quoting someone?): “There’s a [...]
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pretty in pink biscornu 05-08, originally uploaded by tmcg61. (23 of 50) This is a “biscornu” done by my dear friend Terri. It’s possibly the prettiest thing I’ve ever seen! A little pillow (way way too pretty for pins) on its own pedestal! Even if it is a kit, there is an essential pleasure one [...]
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(22 of 50) My dear friends, family, readers and listmates, I will be 50 on my next birthday, which is JUNE 15. That is less than a month away, so get ready for some fun. This birthday is very momentous for me. Not just because it’s one of those decade-milestone birthdays, but also because of [...]
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(19 of 50) This video is really amazing and wonderful, and slightly creepy (too much Twilight Zone). I love how the marriage of technique, art and performance work to bring life to this girl, and then the video is a lovely little vigniette with the music and editing. Golf claps to the little girl and [...]
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(18 of 50) I am a knitter. I learned from my mother when I was probably about six or seven. I am backdating that to the house I remember knitting in. I can see the bedroom where she had her sewing stuff. There was a little Singer sewing machine for kids there too, and I [...]
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