Came home with a nifty piece of conference schwag that I don’t think I’d ever picked up at conference before: a nasty summer cold complete with a chesty cough, and losing my voice. Not my idea of fun. But I did manage to enjoy most of the conference. Friday night I went to a fancy … [Read more…]
Or, I don’t think I’m ever going to catch up. Mark’s brother and sister-in-law came to visit the weekend before last, and then by a fluke we also got Mark’s nephew, his wife, and their two kids who are 8 and 13, for an overnight. They were all on their way to the U.S. Open … [Read more…]
Yes, I know I haven’t written for awhile. My friend Joe is getting a lot of press for having turned his podcast series, Documents that changed the world, into a book, with a slightly different title, Documents That Changed the Way We Live. So here’s one that changed me. Found in an old filing cabinet … [Read more…]
I’m going to the Library Conference instead … Organized by arktictoc And here’s more info about Solar Flare – in Norwegian & translated (I’m sure you can get Google translate to do your own translation too.) #Repost @f_stromstad ・・・ The No Ones, photo by Adam Selzer One of the 3 (count 'em) bands formed, triggered, … [Read more…]
As the eye doctor says, “any better 1, 2?” with 1 being Twenty Seventeen, a new free Word Press theme, and 2 being my current Omega theme. Vote for a new theme for DebsLunch! from Debra Shapiro on Vimeo. [poll id=”3″]
I think it’s a natural thing that as you age, you start feeling like you’re no longer “at the pulse of it all” like Arthur Kane, as Robyn Hitchcock sings in N.Y. Doll. This weekend, somehow, I felt worse than that – like I’m becoming invisible. Probably much of my malaise is related to the … [Read more…]