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An Omen for 2021     

An Omen for 2021     

January 2nd, 2021 | General, Holidays, music, the world and Mother Nature, Time Passes

I hate that “thud.” It always means a bird has mistaken the sliders—despite the raptor and leaf decals—as navigable space. The first thud we heard was a male red-bellied woodpecker only a few days after we had moved in. Then there was a goldfinch. Maybe a couple of...
Book # 20 in 2018: “Twilight of the Belle Epoque” by Mary McAuliffe

Book # 20 in 2018: “Twilight of the Belle Epoque” by Mary McAuliffe

May 29th, 2018 | Europe, General, literature and poetry, Memory, music, Politics, Popular Culture, Time Passes, transportation, Travel

According to the introduction, Mary McAuliffe produced “Twilight of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Picasso,Stravinsky, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, and Their Friends through the Great War” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) as a sort of conclusion to...
Book # 18 in 2018: “Parallel Play” by Tim Page

Book # 18 in 2018: “Parallel Play” by Tim Page

May 12th, 2018 | Family, Friends, General, Health, Memory, music

My Dear One had read Parallel Play: Growing Up With Undiagnosed Aspergers by Tim Page (Random House, 2009) and handed it off to me a few weeks ago. I recognized the title and author. I remembered listening to an interview with him on NPR and had thought then what a...
I-35: Mason City

I-35: Mason City

October 12th, 2016 | Architecture and Design, Family, General, music, Travel, United States, visual arts

There is sculpture everywhere. Sofas, side tables and chairs in the park, children playing, bears looking confused, a marching band worth of horns, welded dinosaurs, silvery dancers, and even Frank Lloyd Wright looking approvingly at his hotel and bank downtown....
K-12 language arts, social studies and science passages and items; history of art, art education and art criticism; travel writing

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