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Hoods down

Sunday, July 14, 2013

It’s just sinking in about the Trayvon Martin verdicit. John’s photo from May, I think taken somewheres in Milwaukee. Usually stick to writing about food, but jeez …

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Friday work at home day

Friday, July 12, 2013

This week I have been lazily posting to tumblr and Twitter and scanting the blog. Rach got here Sunday – I made pie. On Monday, I had an evening class, where some f the students were logging in remotely and the rest were in the room with me, which made it a 12-hour day, so […]

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Long weekend

Sunday, July 7, 2013

I’ve been enjoying the long holiday weekend – I didn’t work at all on the 4th and only a couple of hours each Friday and Saturday and Sunday – tho I am not quite started on Sunday’s hours as yet <grin>. Yesterday I tried out a recipe for a [vegan] roasted tomato sauce. I liked […]

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Food for the 4th

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Ah, dinner’s cleaned up – I had to take a 2nd shower – and I have a drink – Scotch rocks, not the Tom Collins I was contemplating, though it is unlike me to prefer whiskey over gin – and I can hear the fireworks we’re being too lazy to go to. So pictures:

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For the red, white & blue

Thursday, July 4, 2013

Blueberry cornmeal muffins, with red papers. ha. So here’s the plan: Muffins & bananas for breakfast (any minute now). Maybe a bike ride? For dinner: Grilled shrimp & brats and that potluck broccoli salad with bacon (I am going to make my version with bacon, toasted almonds, raisins, shallots – and the mayo, vinegar, sugar […]

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Tuesday getting ready to go home from Chicago

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Mark went back yesterday, a day early, because his cat escaped out of a second floor window – silly kitty. She’s a de-clawed Maine coon, so she looks big, but she’s only about 10 months old so still a bit kitten-dumb. And loose on the neighbor hood with raccoons and dogs. Our kids looked for […]

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Sunday at the ALA conference

Sunday, June 30, 2013

So I’ve been feeling guilty about not taking more pictures, and not blogging more, here among the librarians in Darth Vader’s living room a.k.a. McCormick Place convention center. They’ve covered up the old ugly part pretty well with new buildings; it’s a four building complex now. But it’s still a big rambly damp cold place. […]

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In Chicago

Sunday, June 30, 2013

I’m in Chicago for the librarians’ conference. I came a day early because I have a 10:30 meeting tomorrow. Joan’s gone to pick up her dog from doggy daycare, and I’m about to go pick up the take away Indian food. She’s let me stay over in her spare bedroom in Dearborn Park. It’s been […]

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Mimi’s Sweet 16

Sunday, June 23, 2013

My niece, Amelia, known as Mimi, is 16 today. She is the most UN-sweet-16 girl you can imagine, so I was totally at a loss as to what to get for her. A shirt I sent her years ago that I thought was pretty hip – photo prints on a t-shirt – was deemed too […]

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Halfway in another time

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Welp, it’s another of those weeks, when I haven’t written from Sunday to Friday – tho I actually started this post Thursday, and I know I won’t finish it till Saturday. Cooking-wise it hasn’t been too unusual – couple of nights when I had dinner all by myself, once we went out, and Friday I […]

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