I have been busy recently with summer projects – upholstering and other activities that I hesitate to start when my husband is hanging around constantly going about his business normally in his own house. Nor does he like to watch me scatter fabric scraps throughout the house, drop pins where they will impale themselves in someone’s foot (and it never…
Interesting article in the New York Times Magazine of Feb 26, 2012. (I’m a little late, since I read an assortment of magazines from the neighbourhood library whenever I notice them.) The article, “I have taken some liberties,” addresses fact-checking and the fine lines between fact, non-fiction, essays and outright fiction. And, of course, the question…
Best TV: Villa Fontaine Jimbocho. I will comment on the hotels on our recent trip. I reserved 3 different hotels on http://www.Hotels.com in advance. You have to pay in advance, although the refund conditions appear to by quite reasonable. The process went perfectly smoothly. Here is where we stayed. Although there was no grandeur, we were very happy…
I’m not sure whether my husband and I should be called incompatible or complementary, at least with respect to our housecleaning styles. If we ever get divorced (having survived the last 30 years together) it will likely be due to these irreconcilable differences: he is happy with clean mess, whereas I prefer dusty order. Three…
Originally posted on FiftyFourandAHalf:
You guys read my blog and often rail with me against the stupidity we are seeing in our political discussions. And it does my heart good. Tonight, I’m going to show you how some folks in Troy, Michigan, fought the Tea Party with inspiring brilliance, reverse psychology and humor. You folks…
[To see the whole series of Anne’s Story, click on the menu tab at the top of my Home page.] When last we left Anne on this blog, she was in her 20s, had committed her own mother to a mental hospital, been found by her long lost foster mother, was married to Ray and had…
One always collects too much stuff at a conference – mainly heavy paper stuff. On the morning of departure from Kyoto we had to sort through it all and make hard decisions. I brought my wheeled suitcase on this trip so I could put the heavy stuff in it, and carry light things in a…
This evening we were given a cultural show with a crew of presumably highly trained, expensive and refined geishas, for which Kyoto is famous. Maybe because we weren’t well fed beforehand, but we’re supplied with sake and such, I found myself nodding off a little. The charms of the geishas are, well, subtle – compared…
Seeing Clarely 