Happy 83rd birthday, Phil Lesh. We went to Chicago Sunday to see Phil & Friends at the Salt Shed, a new venue that recycled the old Morton Salt building. I guess it was starting to fall down so good thing – a wall collapsed in 2016 and an avalanche of salt covered up some of … [Read more…]
… fewer deadlines. The last couple weeks I’ve just been feeling so slammed with work, and then I added on working at the polls and volunteering at the Libraries Book sale, and the film fest. April has already been the cruelest month and we’re only one week in. Late March was kind of mean, too. … [Read more…]
One of the books I’m reading for the Wisconsin Library Association awards is Tomboyland, by Melissa Faliveno. I read the first essay, The Finger of God, that’s partially about the tornado that clobbered Barneveld in 1984. The sirens didn’t go off, and the tornado killed 9 people and destroyed 90% of the structures in the … [Read more…]
I took Friday off to get an extra long weekend for Memorial Day, and have been doing pretty good at not working, although I did check email everyday, and did reply to few messages on Friday and today (Sunday). Saturday we had friends over for a driveway cookout. I kept thinking there were going to … [Read more…]
This week is the Ides of March, feared by Caesar, I guess, but not me. On Monday I took a picture of some heart ornaments in a tree that look kind of bruised, like how all of ours feel now. It’s Phil Lesh’s & John’s birthdays. Phil is 81. Phil’s kids and extended family band, … [Read more…]
I got this in my email this morning. So, I went into a little Jerry Garcia, G. Dead memory lane. I made this Days Between graphic my facebook profile pic, just like I did last year. I didn’t even need to re-download it, I already had it in my photos. I listened to Days Between … [Read more…]
Do much of anything. I feel so behind on writing, it’s hard to get started back in. I’ll see if I can kind of pick up the highlights. Both my garage remodel and the new online student orientation started Monday. I’ve been trying to take a pic or two everyday – here’s what there is … [Read more…]
Last night we went to see Jeremy Denk play Bartok with the CSO, with a guest conductor, Sir Mark Elder. And gosh, the program was all full of nice stuff about Denk; how he got a MacArthur genius grant, and writes for the New Yorker and lots of other publications, and how his blog is … [Read more…]