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We had some intense days working on helping our daughter move in but ate wonderful burritos and spicy calamari at Alto Cinco, and had delicious egg sandwiches at Mom’s Diner (green booths below.) We visited the Food Co-op, and the hardware store twice. I was fascinated with the modern art left behind by a multitude … Read more
If you get a chance and are in Ridgefield, CT this summer, check out David Dunlap’s paintings at the Watershed Gallery. They are lovely and particularly fascinating because they are painted on brushed aluminum and even silver. The one I loved the most (a detail above, the complete painting at the bottom of the post) … Read more
One of our friends from church writes car reviews for Consumer Reports, and gets to drive around all sorts of new cars to test them out. We are always curious to see what he is driving next. Yesterday, it was the Tesla – the highest ranked car EVER in Consumer Reports history – and it … Read more
Thank you to my friend Amanda for the list posted below of professional Shakespeare productions in Connecticut this summer. (If you aren’t local I highly suggest you find some local Shakespeare productions to enjoy!) As You Like It: (free with suggested donation): www.shakespeareonthesound.org/ also here: http://www.art-farm.org/what-s-happening-now Much Ado About Nothing: (Free) http://www.shorelinearts.org/shakespeare.cfm also here: (some … Read more
I met my friend (and blog reader) Lorraine (see bottom photo) for lunch at the famous Bloodroot restaurant in Bridgeport, CT. I’ve been in Connecticut for over 20 years and had heard of this iconic feminist vegetarian/vegan restaurant since before I moved here, but I had never been before now. We really enjoyed ourselves and … Read more
As we head into a long holiday weekend, I thought it would be a good time to share some great sources for free ebooks. Project Gutenberg has 42,000 free ebooks available for download that were previously published by professional publishers but have expired copyrights. Manybooks.net has 29,000 free ebooks for Kindle, Nook and iPad. Feedbooks.com … Read more
I’ve collected these quotes about children and education from Facebook friends…
Enjoy!
I wrote an article about graduation titled Graduation – A Time of Renewal that was printed today in the Christian Science Monitor. You can read it online here, or below: Graduation – A Time of Renewal Looking out over the expansive green sward punctuated with chairs for both the graduates and proud parents, a hymn … Read more
Wednesday evening meetings in our church are a time for the congregation to share what has been helpful to them, and I loved this idea that was offered last night by Diane Staples, who long ago wrote a short article about this topic that I encourage you to read here. Last night she said: “It … Read more
I found this framework of prompts on the April 25th entry of the Design so Vast blog and thought I’d give it a try: Vanity – Anything good God gets the credit for, which wipes out vanity fairly expeditiously. And if we’re talking about the type of furniture which I think we are, that is … Read more
Ever buy stuff off the internet and see a place to enter a coupon code to save money and wish you had one? I’ve taken to googling for coupon codes and have learned that you can almost always get one for whatever you are looking for at Retailmenot. I just bought software, for example, at … Read more
We have homeschooled alongside Christopher and his family for well over a decade. Carpooling a lot with him recently we’ve been hearing about the jet engine he has been building. Yesterday at our Homeschooling Science Fair we finally got to see it! He did an awesome job on it, and I couldn’t be more proud … Read more
Yesterday we were out of pocket for 22 hours going to Maryland and back to attend our daughter’s Senior Oral at St. John’s College in Annapolis. We had a great day and she did an excellent job. Getting started at 4:30 am we saw dawn’s glow on the GW Bridge, as you can see in … Read more
In January, I posted relief that all our daughter’s graduate school applications were complete. Since then, we found out that she was accepted at five excellent schools, and she set about visiting them for their admitted student days. Last week alone she was on a plane six days out of seven doing just that, and … Read more
This is for those of us who take ourselves and the state of our world seriously… as my mother used to say, “many a truth is told in jest.”
Enjoy these links and videos! The photo is of the Kansas City Library…
