From the monthly archives:

May 2005

Delivery

May 31, 2005

Tonight was the reading for the students in the memoir writing classes that I just finished at the UW Extension Writers Program. For the reading, I reworked a piece that I wrote early in the year. Before taking this class, I had trouble writing multiple drafts. My teacher, Laura Kalpakian, and my classmates have, through [...]

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Folklife!

May 29, 2005

For many musicians, dancers and craftspeople in the Pacific Northwest, Memorial Day Weekend is all about Seattle’s Northwest Folklife Festival. Begun in 1972, the original festival’s concept was to provide a public forum where the traditional and ethnic communities and artists of the Northwest Region of the National Park Service (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and [...]

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Feline Friday: The Princess

May 27, 2005

I am a princess… and, yes, you may pet me. Oh, no, I insist. More cats – and other lesser animals – at the Friday Ark.

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Potty parity passes in New York City!

May 26, 2005

Today’s New York Daily News has news women can use: It’s a go for ‘potty parity’By Frank Lombardi, Daily News City Hall Bureau There were signs of relief – especially from the ladies – yesterday after the City Council unanimously passed a long-awaited “potty parity” bill. New buildings and buildings undergoing major renovations will be [...]

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What we did on our seventh anniversary

May 25, 2005

As I wrote elsewhere last year, Paul and I spent our first two wedding anniversaries out of the country, the first in Italy and the second in Canada. We joked after the second trip that we would leave the country each year for our anniversary, but events – some chosen, others forced upon us – [...]

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Strengthen the Good

May 24, 2005

Some months ago, I ran across a weblog called Strengthen the Good, which describes its mission thus: “Using the power of weblogs for open-source charity. Don’t just fight evil: Strengthen the good.” Occasionally, STG highlights what its founder Alan Nelson refers to a micro-charity, “a small, inspiring charity, one with a real face, where $1 [...]

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Seven years ago today…

May 23, 2005

…Paul and I married, at Savannah-Chanel Vineyards in Saratoga, California. One of the readings at our wedding was this excerpt from Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s A Gift from the Sea: A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on [...]

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Music for a Sunday morning

May 22, 2005

This morning I was at my computer, writing. Prairie Home Companion played on the radio, hovering at the periphery of my awareness. I hummed along when Shetland musicians Ale M�ller and Aly Bain (one of my favorite fiddlers, with a pair of gorgeous icy blue eyes) played a couple of beautiful Shetland tunes that I [...]

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