Okay, throwing open the field for suggestions! :) This summer will quite possibly be the last one I have free before I must settle down…
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Sailing, saris, activism, & climbing
Lots of great firsts to (quickly) report! First, on Saturday 18 February: I attended a “battle sail” with my housemates on the Hawai’ian Chieftain, a…
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Woohoo! I am now certified on the TechShop embroidery machine! Our practice to prove that we’d mastered the teaching was to make these cute little…
Continue ReadingBelated Hallowe’en: Rat-on-a-Stick & other delights
Once a week we usually have some friends over for dinner and gaming or video-watching. For the night falling on Hallowe’en week I decided to…
Continue ReadingThoughts on trying new things
Yesterday I had a wonderful but accidental first while trying to get photos for another of my firsts: I successfully took some pictures with my…
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It’s funny… in making up potential things to try for my 50 New Things list, I find myself adding on all the ideas and events…
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As you may know from one of my previous postings, in 2011 I had my 50th birthday. I was trying to think of something special…
Continue ReadingCatching up to the end of the year… sort of
I’ve been effectively running at a frantic pace for the past three or four months, in order to keep up with all the things happening…
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Today is my 50th birthday. Lying in bed this morning, listening with pleasure to the lovely silvery sound of the falling rain, I found myself…
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It is 11 September 2011, the ten year anniversary of the tragedy of 9/11. Many people have spoken and created many moving eulogies to those…
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