An Extra Hour of Memoir-ies

November 7, 2010

I put the finishing touches (well, the finishing touches until I print it and see what needs fixing) on my “October”, an illustrated memoir I worked on last month after taking Suzy Becker’s class on the subject at the Worcester Art Museum. It is not the project that I left the class hoping to start (as my self-addressed, self-written reminder postcard from the class reminded me when it arrived this week), but it’s a start that I’m happy with. I’ll get up to speed on the other project soon enough.

Lynn wants me to enter it into the adult student show that the WAM holds after each term of classes wraps up. We’ll see how it turns out. If it’s worth the expense of an inexpensive frame, maybe I’ll submit it.

Thanks to Suzy and to WAM for the class. It was a great Sunday – and continued to be a great month.

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whiskers on kittens…

November 6, 2010

I looked at our dining room table this morning and had to take a picture capturing so many of my favorite things.

A Few of My Favorite Things


My mandolin, sketch book, pens and colored pencils, coffee, laptop (with twitter running, following some of my favorite people), rocks from beaches in the Northeast, Utne magazine in the background, and a turkey for Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday. During a photography class in college, I had the assignment to take a self-portrait. This pic would work.

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Let’s Celebrate

October 18, 2010

There are so many, many things to celebrate every single day. In fact, so many that just about everything one might imagine celebrating has been given a designated moment for just such. That said, I have decided the following:

  • In the spirit of Open Access Week, I will be hiding in the stacks.
  • In the spirit of National Archives Month, I am going to sit very still and collect dust.
  • In the spirit of Pastoral Care Week, let us all pray.
  • In the spirit of Random Action Week, I made up a bunch of random services we will begin providing to the research community on campus. [I later discovered that it’s actually National RADON Action week, but I’m sticking with the former.]
  • In the spirit of National Caramel Month, I ate a bunch of Hershey Kisses with caramel filling.
  • In the spirit of National Disarmament Week, I will continue to never own a firearm.
  • In the spirit of Head Start Awareness Month, let us all leave work 10 minutes early today.

Happy celebrating!

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