I spent the day teaching puppetry up in Fremont at James Leitch Elementary. One of the interesting things about schools is that they all have different name structures for the teachers. In some I’m Mary, usually Miss Mary, and sometimes Mrs. Kowal. I always use the married version of the honorific when I’m filling out […]
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Yesterday was absolutely lovely. We slept in, had bagels and hung about being lazy together. I gave Rob four wool Afghan pakol hats, which are his favorite headgear. See the one he’s wearing in this photo? It was his favorite and went missing while we were in Iceland so I picked up some replacements. He
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Rob and I are celebrating our seventh anniversary today. One of my rituals is that I completely unplug and am unavailable to the rest of the world. In fact, this is an automated entry. La! It’s like time-travel. I don’t mind if we miss birthdays or other holidays, but our anniversary is very important to
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I was actually online before there were blogging platforms, but I started my blogger account four years ago today. That’s right kiddies, I remember when I had to hard-code HTML both ways, uphill in the snow. Not like you young whipper-snappers today with your fancy CMS and CSS and LJ and all the other new-fangled
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Today is our sixth anniversary, so I’m unplugging the computer and turning off the cellphone to spend the day with Rob. If you need me for anything, I’ll be back on Sunday.
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Rob has a collection of wine. The trouble with driving across the country in the summer is that the wine would bake in the moving truck. So, today we had guests over to help empty the cellar. The highlight of the evening, for me was his Domain Du Mas Blanc from Banyuls from 1977. (Rob
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This font emporium that I love, sent out a coupon as part of a celebration of World Book and Copyright Day. That’s today. Did anyone else know this? The connection between 23 April and books was first made in 1923 by booksellers in Catalonia as a way to honour the author Miguel de Cervantes who
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I’m thirty-seven today. In an interesting twist, I was born on the anniversary of Mary, Queen of Scots’ beheading. When I was younger, I used to think that was significant.
Four years ago today. Rob and I are going to dinner at Tabla tonight to celebrate the only time I will ever get him to dance.
Mom and Dad gave us a gift certificate to Rejuvenation Hardware for our anniversary. Friday, as part of our Christmas festivities Rob and I went to Rejuvenation to pick out a new light for our front hall. We won’t get the actual light until January seventh, but you can admire the computerized rendering of its
Well, it turns out that I couldn’t get away, so we went to dinner at Maru last night. We had a lovely, but cold walk in the snow there and back.
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