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Notes on throwing parties…(found draft)
I have neglected this blog for months/years, and recently returned to this space – I discovered this snippet was sitting as a draft since December 2018 (just over a year ago)… I like throwing parties. I think I’ve posted about this before… Last night, I threw a Hanukkah/Housewarming party. This is the third housewarming I’ve…
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Found draft from 2017
I’ve been cleaning up my desk, and my desktop computer (after having a bit of grief with needing to update it to get it responsive again – had 3+ weeks of not being able to restart it, but now it’s fully functional again). I checked on what was sitting on my external hard drive, and…
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Traveling in Israel with boys…
I know I haven’t been here for awhile, and I kept meaning to post, but was tired of posting anymore about running (although I did recently finish my first half marathon, which was momentous), or about divorce, or about living alone.
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Musicals, Shmoozicals
I hung out at the Palo Alto Community Theater throughout my high school years. Like so much of my life then, I was pulled into being involved by my best friend, S. I only was onstage one, or maybe twice. The first time, I was a Bobby-soxer in the opening number of Guys & Dolls.…
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The restorative power of singing…
I feel like I’ve written about this before, but searching on the word “choir” didn’t produce the results that I thought it would. I figured that I must have written sometime in the past about how therapeutic it is for me to join with a group of people, be they close friends or total strangers,…
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Clocking too many miles…
Yesterday was a prime example of why I need to locate my home base in Rockville. I had the boys with me this weekend, and we had a great time (for the most part – we’re dealing with some pre-teen angst, and the occasional temper-tantrum on the other end). But yesterday included three round-trip journeys…
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Thinking about Joe Frank…
Joe Frank died last week. Oddly enough, I had been thinking about his remarkable radio show recently. When I lived in Palo Alto, and was commuting over Highway 17 to finish my undergraduate degree at UC Santa Cruz, I used to listen to Joe Frank on either KQED or KAZU (I’m not sure whether they…
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End of 2017…
I don’t know about you, but my inbox is just overflowing with requests for donations…there are always a lot, but the past week has been an exercise in daily purging of requests for donations. Given that I am buying a house, and have several trips planned, including a trip in June with my boys to…
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Next big thing…
I’m buying a house. By myself. I’ve been a co-owner of a total of four homes in my life, but each time, I could rely on someone else to pay attention to all the details, and trust that we are making a sensible decision that we could afford. This time, it’s all on me, and…