The never made
But maybe I still will. These are my Instagrams from Trump’s 1st hundred days, January to March 2017. My plan was to print them on cloth and then bind them at the top, like a “book” of upholstery fabric samples.
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Good but not great
My cooking has been good but not great for the last week or so – The worst was Monday. Dinner was a pretty good idea: Marcella Hazen’s lemon pasta (simple, it’s cream, lemon juice and zest, fettuccine, and Parmesan), salad with the end of a honey-mustard bottled salad dressing and a few shots of Rachael’s … [Read more…]
Spring Fever
Or malaise. Or something. It was lightly snowing while I walked downtown Tuesday, to catch the bus to Chicago to see Mozart. Like I said in my last post, it’s last time of the year when everyone starts trying to feel good because it’s spring, but I’m not ready, and also have this guilty feeling … [Read more…]
That time of year ….
… When it’s trying to be spring, and I’m just not ready. And, the last few years, I feel like, “Wait a minute we haven’t even really had winter yet, how can it be spring?” I first remember really feeling this way, not ready for spring but without the guilt about not having had winter … [Read more…]
The groundhogs were wrong
As far as I know, both Sun Prairie Jimmy, and Punxatawney Phil (the real groundhog as far as a Pittsburgh girl like me is concerned) predicted six more weeks of winter on February 2nd. But here we are on March 3, a mere four weeks later, and it kind of seems like winter is over. … [Read more…]
Cereal box slide digitizing
Thanksgiving in Hollywood, 1981, I believe. My brother, me, mom & dad, brother’s then girlfriend Rita. Lovely Rita. SoCal stuff like the diner, and random pink Rambler, that was not ours. I like that we took pictures of the pumpkin pie. I want to make these into a quilt. [portfolio_slideshow pagerpos=disabled exclude=”3010″]
What I’m doing this weekend
An old friend’s comment on one of my Facebook posts got me digging through my old slides, looking for this hanging I made, I think in 1979: And looking at the slides got me thinking about how to digitize them. Of course, I could send them off and get them done for real; they’re 35mm … [Read more…]
Getting to normal
There a 30+ year-old Bruce Cockburn song called The Trouble With Normal, and he sings, “But the trouble with normal is it always gets worse”. He’s talking about apathy and politics, but also how elusive “normal” is – and that’s pretty much how I feel. Behind on work stuff, not getting enough exercise, not eating … [Read more…]
Travel & its discontents
I attended the Midwinter library conference, and it was a bit of an odyssey. I was supposed to leave on Friday, early, but there was a snowstorm, and everything going out of Chicago got cancelled. The best anyone could do for me was a 9:00 AM flight out of O’Hare on Saturday morning, and that … [Read more…]
Superbowl weekend: Goodbye old cat & Grillin’ for Peace & Vivian Maier
The black cat wasn’t eating too well, and I was starting to think maybe she had the same thyroid thing the white one had. But then Friday night it seemed like her back legs were stopping working, and I thought she smelled a little like pee, and I started worrying that maybe she was starting … [Read more…]