Archives in Category: Special Events

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Music

Posted on August 25, 2014

I don’t know what possessed me.  Me, who won’t play piano in public.  Me, who envies prodigies who started playing before attending kindergarten.  Me, who is fighting weakening wrists and arthritic fingers. Yes, that me.

I voluntarily volunteered (as opposed

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Robin Williams

Posted on August 12, 2014

I learned last night that Robin Williams passed away, quite possibly a suicide. If this is so, I’m not surprised.

I always liked his characters – from Mork to Mrs. Doubtfire to the therapist in “Good Will Hunting” – but

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Super Moon

Posted on August 11, 2014

I was all over it. The Super Moon.  That point in the year when the moon is closest to the earth and looks incredibly large to the naked eye.  I missed it in July and made plans to see it

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Where’s the Cove?

Posted on August 10, 2014

Every summer we go to minor league baseball games at the Cove in South Bend.  Named for Stanley Coveleski, a Hall of Fame pitcher who once lived in the city, the Cove was always a charming, relatively inexpensive way to

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Proxy

Posted on August 8, 2014

Today is Earl’s birthday, and he’s celebrating it the way he wants.  He’s working from early morning to mid-afternoon.

I’m a big devotee of doing whatever you want on your birthday, but I assure you that I wouldn’t be working

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From the Sublime to the Silly

Posted on July 12, 2014

Earl and I spent the first half of this day at the Milwaukee Art Museum.  Originally, I’d wanted to visit because of its unusual architecture created by Spaniard Santiago Calatrava; but I found the contents inside to be worthwhile too. 

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Harley-D and Me

Posted on July 11, 2014

Today Earl and I visited the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee.  Milwaukee is where it all began in 1903 when William Harley and Arthur Davidson began tinkering with adding motors to bicycles. Until now, I didn’t realize that’s how motorcycles got

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Fourth of July

Posted on July 4, 2014

Earl and I are sitting in a café charging our various electronic devices and using the free WiFi, since we are still without power at home.

I’m feeling a kinship to those who signed the Declaration of Independence 240 years

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Surprise!

Posted on June 15, 2014

Earl and I were meeting his daughter and son-in-law for dinner last night.  Just as we were leaving our home, the phone rang and someone wanted to meet Earl regarding a real estate deal. I heard him say, “We’re going

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Friday the 13th

Posted on June 13, 2014

It comes around every so often, although I don’t know if there is a discernible pattern or not.  (And I don’t mean the horror movie of the same name.) This year Friday the 13th occurs in June. And that is

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