We started off looking at a show of work by Raymond Saunders, who grew up in Pittsburgh and was inspired to be an artist by his high school teachers and also by taking the Saturday morning art classes at the Carnegie, that Andy Warhol also attended. It was called the Tam O’Shanter classes when I … [Read more…]
Except it really wasn’t, it was more like a fun four days in our old home town. For years my brother and have talked about going to Pittsburgh, visit our parents grave, wander around some of our old haunts, maybe see a few old friends. And that’s pretty much exactly what we did, except we … [Read more…]
Yeesh, as I write this Sunday morning at 8:13am, it’s already 80° outside with 77% humidity. Yesterday we tried to go to Summerfest and wimped out, mostly on account of me, we left at a little after 5:00 having been there since 3:00, when the band we were really there to see, Japanese Breakfast, didn’t … [Read more…]
June 12: Now edited with additional mishaps I forgot – and revised with a more optimistic ending! All minor, but when there’s a lot of them, especially when we’re living during the Trump administration, where every new headline is ….. it’s hard to stay optimistic. Anyways when I got back from Duluth last Sunday, I … [Read more…]
Or at least I was in Duluth when I started writing this. I’m on the Board of our local grocery co-op, Willy Street Co-op, and five of the current nine Board members attended CCMA, the Consumer Cooperative Management Association conference, which was in Duluth. Years ago, in 2011 to be exact, my prior tenure on … [Read more…]
Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend I went into a baking frenzy. I made cranberry almond scones, that weren’t quite sweet enough. Either I didn’t put in enough sugar or I forgot it entirely. The scones have a nice texture though. I baked the croissant sourdough that I’d had rising. It’s regular sourdough but when you’re … [Read more…]
Last weekend was an all-play and no work weekend, so relaxed, in fact, that I’m just finally finishing writing about it now, Wednesday, Friday, the start of the next weekend, and it’s Memorial Day, too. Friday was gallery night in Madison, artists & galleries all over the city opening their studios and spaces to the … [Read more…]
Mark’s brother Gregg is six years older and started having kids while he was in his 20s, while Mark didn’t have his one kid until he was 40. So Mark’s brother’s grandkids, of which there are six, are almost as old as Mark’s son. Gregg and his wife Jean’s birthdays are close together in May, … [Read more…]
It’s that gorgeous time of year when everything is green and blooming. And half the time you love it and half the time there’s a little voice whispering, “I’m not ready”. I do have a crop (haha) of spring at least adjacent pictures. Our already almost done lilacs. Welham’s tree, also in the banner above … [Read more…]
Two thoughts on aging: 1) My friend Susan started one conversation a few weeks ago by saying she thought she was ready for the old people’s home, because she had left a Le Creuset (enamel on cast iron) pot of tomatoes slow cooking for such a long time that the tomatoes permanently attached to the … [Read more…]