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Sixty-one
Today I’m sixty-one. We spent a couple of days in Door County, and I came back first; Mark stayed – so I had the house to myself on my birthday eve. I woke up with just me & the fluffy kitty, and...
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Johnny’s Birthday Food
Originally the plan was that I would cook John a birthday dinner in Chicago. I had even sent a set of menus for them to select from. But then it turned out that he was coming to Madison on his birthday...
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With a small army in Seattle
My little brother turned 60 on Monday. Here’s a card Chad & Lea made: Yep, that’s him. My friend Terese is the same day as my brother and the same year as me, so she turned 62. I got a cake from a...
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Spring Break
Those annoying girls on the bus. They were all like, “My 21st birthday – I remember most of it.” “I would’ve been ok if I’d stopped. I had 3 shots of rum on the way and then a vodka cranberry when we...
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Random observations of a week
On Monday night I walked up the hill to dinner at the Chancellor’s house, and a butterfly landed on the sidewalk near me. It reminded me of an image I’d gotten from the website I’d just reviewed for...
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From Bootcamp to Birthday, and Door County
So, like I said, I organize an orientation for our new library science graduate students called Bootcamp, and that was last week. So, a busy week. On the Thursday, the last day of Bootcamp, but before...
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Saint Paddy’s Day in Chicago
We didn’t really go to Chicago to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. We had tickets for the opera Saturday – the Lyric doing La Traviata – and we were supposed to go to a Chicago Symphony chamber concert...
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When I’m 64
Part of being this age is being unable to escape this song for this birthday. I just scrolled through the comments on the YouTube and some of them are pretty good, especially the guy who said he never...
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Made it all the way to Thursday
After that cranky Friday, there was a whole weekend, during which I spent a good bit of time preparing for Tuesday’s election. Saturday we biked to the Farmers Market in a hurry so I could get back in...
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Car key, kittycat, rain coat
My little song for a Tuesday, when I drive, because I volunteer at the food pantry, and then have to be at work, looking presentable, for class at 1:30. I had a weekend of minor but kinda permanent...
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Trip to Chicago on John’s birthday
We went to Chicago on John’s birthday, but we didn’t get to see John. We had tickets for the opera, Tosca, that’s really long, two intermissions. It started at 7:00, so we made a dinner reservation for...
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First official Tuesday with Jasper
And we also had a busy John’s birthday weekend before. Last year we were in Chicago for John’s birthday, but he was so busy with work we never even saw him. This year we had brunch with John &...
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Birthday weekend & new student week one
I am trying to figure out this retired thing, schedule-wise. I seem to never have time to do the things I thought I’d have more time for, like blog posts and art and food photography and reorganizing...
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