reading, writing, exploring
Posted in main on Aug 10th, 2010
Listening to NPR this afternoon on the way home from Birmingham, I caught the story by Raolh Eubanks about how the Bookmobile influenced his life (see this article). Impressive, because the librarian (in Missisippi in the 60′s) followed the law instead of ignoring it, and brought the book mobile by his home… as a black [...]
Posted in main on Dec 26th, 2009
The priest at Christmas Eve mass struck a chord with me. He began by reflecting on the first men on the moon — seeing the earth “as it really is” from a distance. He spoke about them looking back at earth and seeing it as a distant, beautiful blue and green globe. He progressed to [...]
Posted in main on Jul 8th, 2009
My husband lost another aunt last winter. She was, I believe, the last surviving civilian WWII POW (Philippines) in the state of Maine. There were lots of stories there that took decades to become tellable. We are here in her old stomping grounds, visiting and sharing meals with family that was close to her and [...]
Posted in main on May 21st, 2009
Advertising is targeted — it’s really obvious if you pay any attention at all to the ads that show up in the sidebar of a google account or a Facebook page or have every bought anything from Amazon and get on their mailing lists. Some of our other utilities try to figure out what we [...]
Posted in main on Nov 20th, 2008
Yesterday was the first day in 3 weeks that I didn’t even think about taking something to make me feel more comfortable in the afternoon… (I had some surgery a little over 3 weeks ago). I’m off the antibiotics, and the stitches, for the most part seem to be healing. I’ve felt a little tired, [...]
Posted in main on Aug 9th, 2008
My youngest child graduates from college this afternoon. He’ll be moving on to another city, probably on Sunday. The last chick to leave the nest – well, he’s not lived under our roof for several years, but he’s been right here in town. Change. My oldest child is within the 2 week window of expecting [...]
This afternoon it stormed. About 5, I was trying to finish up and leave the office and the power flickered a bit. I didn’t pay much attention until I got up to go. I don’t actually have windows, but there are some across the room from me, so when I turned to leave I saw [...]
