Colin, my fiber optic penguin Dear friends and readers, Some people my age have grandchildren, others have great-nieces and nephews: I have two cats and a fiber optic penguin which lights up in a glittery way when I plug him in. I gave him the name I would have given a son had I had [...]
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Doing Christmas & Snow Reveries
Posted in Autobiographical, cats, Seasonal, tagged fiber optic penguin on December 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »
How much our houses can mean: putting away one’s life, what was once close to hand, near to heart
Posted in Autobiographical, cats, Facebook, library books, Samuel Richardson, women's poetry, tagged clarissa, Our house on September 8, 2010 | 10 Comments »
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. — R. L. Stevenson Our house, 1984 (Jim’s mother, me, two daughters): it has not changed all that much Our backyard: you see Izzy’s windows last summer Dear [...]
Summer Music — & tiny kittens amid the Pemberley splendor of the Castleton grounds
Posted in 20th century culture, cats, Music, Musical, Plays, Poetry, Theater, tagged Capitol Fringe, castleton, il trittico, lonny smith, maris wicker, master pedro's puppet show, opera. lorin maazel, padrevia, puccini on July 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
One of the puppets: the muslim abductor of Melisendra (also represented a puppet, a lovely romance lady in a medieval-like pink dress), from Master Pedro’s Puppet Show (at Castleton festival) Lonny Smith, Maris Wicker, Love Noir: the music of Lenny, Kurt and Harold (cabaret at Capitol Fringe) Dear friends and readers, I’ve got five summer [...]
