Category Archives: daily updates

I take note of this week every year – we’re into the saddest week of the year for NASA, because of all the anniversaries clustered together: Apollo 1 launch fire: January 27, 1967 Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Command Pilot Edward … Continue reading →

The reunion was great, actually. It was funny – the whole thing was conceived and hatched on Facebook, so that’s where all the pre- and post-discussion was, I have never seen my FB feed explode as it did that weekend. … Continue reading →

I’m heading off tonight for my thirtieth reunion. I still have mixed feelings about this – it’s not like I was the belle of the ball back in high school, after all, and an unexpectedly nasty FB comment from a … Continue reading →

I have a trip to Philadelphia coming up in a week and a harf, for my thirtieth high school reunion. Flights are booked. Hotel is booked – I will stay at a hotel near the venue (and also close to … Continue reading →

There’s not much to say about this past holiday; it was nice but exceedingly quiet. We went down to Rowell (the lake house) of course; finished the Holiday Challenge early then had a few days when it was warm enough … Continue reading →

Four days left – I’m off for the next two weeks. And after quitting time on Friday I plan to do two weeks’ worth of nothing. At least, that is, for values of “nothing” including: pack up the car and … Continue reading →

I have been thinking about communities of women. I’ve encountered two literary ones recently, in very different books. Given who she is, it’s not surprising that Phyrne Fisher seems to know every female doctor, lawyer, pilot or adventurer in 1920s … Continue reading →

I am a singer at heart – not a singer as in people want to hear me sing, but one as in that’s what I do when I can and it’s actually a bit hard for me sometimes not to … Continue reading →

Last weekend was fabulous. My husband appears to have hung out entirely with a core group of friends in college and to have known hardly anyone else – but that core group were all back in New Orleans for Homecoming … Continue reading →