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Running in Pandemic Times
I started running regularly 4 years ago when I moved to the Federal Hill neighborhood of Baltimore. It’s lovely and flat on the waterfront, and has some lovely little parks and cool architecture to keep things interesting. Since then, I’ve run several 5K races, 10K races, one half marathon, and even joined a running club,…
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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…
