A Simple Christmas

December 21, 2010

My Christmas preparations are sweet and simple. Beloved Son is on the opposite coast this year (he’s in Boston and I’m NW of Seattle). I sent a small box that included wool socks (store bought) and an organic dark chocolate-mint bar. They are always among his presents. If I’m very lucky at Christmas, I’m given [...]

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Homemade Cream of Tomato Soup

December 14, 2010

My son recently moved to Cambridge to be with his Beloved who is finishing up her degree in architecture at MIT. They shop at the Haymarket where they get great bargains on produce. One of this week’s steals was 15 POUNDS OF TOMATOES FOR $2. When I heard that, I emailed him: “Sounds like Cream [...]

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Korean News

November 30, 2010

I’m concerned about what’s going on in Korea. It’s because I have a heart connection there. In 1971 I lived in one of the few (there were four, I believe) places that non-military-sponsored Westerners lived in Korea. All of them were in Seoul. My first husband was a US Army Captain stationed on the DMZ and [...]

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Changing how we understand “education”

November 28, 2010

Sir Ken Robinson has been one of my heroes for several years, ever since I discovered him at TED. Why? He is an educator. A consummate educator. He not only “gets it,” he articulates it brilliantly and education is my passion. This is one of his most recent contributions to sanity. It comes through another [...]

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I hear what you say

October 17, 2010

I’m a auditory learner . . . or, at least, that’s my strongest input channel though I love visual input as well. My auditory channel is so strong in me that I need to talk to myself to get some ideas cemented in my head. Noise has to come out of my mouth and into [...]

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Going to The Dark Side

October 16, 2010

Ok. I haven’t blogged in a really long time. But I have been actively writing . . . on FaceBook. It’s no secret that I’ve been ambivalent about writing a blog. It  feels sort of lonely . . . like you’re just writing words in a journal, words that disappear into the ether. At least, [...]

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Lactose intolerance

August 26, 2010

Sexy title for a blog post, no? In 1971 I taught at the Seoul American Middle School on the military base in Seoul, Korea. It was during the Viet Nam war. My students were, as a group, the most physically beautiful humans I’ve ever been among, mostly because many of them were ethnically mixed. A [...]

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One Reason I love the West Coast

July 28, 2010

Portland Oregon! It’s such a forward-looking city. A number of my older, single women friends  (as in my age . . . late 50s, early 60s) are having the conversation about how we want to live in our retirement. One answer that keeps coming up: co-housing in an urban environment . . . a group of [...]

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A friend came calling yesterday . . .

July 27, 2010

He’s tiny . . . but as welcome as the Queen of Egypt to this place. (I don’t think there’s a Queen of Egypt anymore but it was one of my mother’s sayings that has stayed with me.) God!!!! My hand looks so old here . . . because it is old. Facing my own mortality is a [...]

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The Vegetabletarians are Coming!

July 26, 2010

Beloved Son will arrive any day now for a few weeks stay and he will bring along one? ten? eight? friends all at once, or a few at a time . . . all gracing the land with their radiant young energy and  ready to pitch in on some projects. And not just my projects, [...]

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