Things are finally getting back to normal.
I feel better after a nasty cold/sore throat/lost voice a couple of weeks ago.
There’s only two more weeks of summer school teaching left!
I finished writing a grant that I had been working on for a few weeks. I’m trying to find ways to write (nearly) full time next year. [...]

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I just realized I haven’t posted about Tshirts in a long time.
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love crazy T-shirts. Occasionally i’ll wear a T-shirt to teach in, but sometimes I worry that that i’m dressing too casual for teaching (though i’ve seen other teachers in shorts and flip-flops). When I wear T-shirts [...]

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No, not June Allyson (seen here with dreamy Peter Lawford in “Good News”).
My Garden.
I’m finally getting my garden to grow. It’s actually just out on our front patio, but after about 3 months i’m finally seeing results! Yay! The first time i’ve ever grown vegetables (and fruits).
Last week Ted and I ate the first ripe [...]

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Here is a picture of me from Christmas 1974. My sister, Andrea, gave it to me last week. We’re planning her 40th birthday and Ted and I are in charge of the invitations. She wanted us to put a picture of her –from when she was a cute, button-nosed little kid–on the invite.
But I thought [...]

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Another star from the Golden Age of the Hollywood Musical has left us.
Cyd Charisse died today in Los Angeles at age 86.
Read her obit here in the New York Times.
And see her paired marvelously with Fred Astaire in The Bandwagon.

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I promise more blog posts this weekend. Just trying to dig my way out of a pit of papers and other work.
In the meantime, isn’t this awesome? I don’t know how I found it; I was surfing the net, reading travel blogs (obviously not doing the work I was supposed to be doing) and somehow [...]

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This was a very productive weekend, for the most part.
I did a ton of grading (finally caught up after the literary event at the college had set me back), took care of
my three rapidly growing tomatoes (yes, we have 3 now!), did a little note-taking and fleshing out of a character for my novel, and [...]

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Write now (ha ha, I made a literary joke!) i’m totally into my New Yorkers.
Especially at the gym, which i’ve mentioned before. The elliptical… you know what I mean.
This last week I read the article A Dip in the Cold, by Lynne Cox, about her latest long distance swim through the Northwest Passage near Greenland. [...]

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O. M. G.
I totally forgot it was Hermia’s Birthday today.
Two days of celebrations!She was born on April 15, 1991– which makes her 17 years old. But, according
to this website , she’s really 78 years old (in the human equivalent).
Here’s their chart:

Here’s a look at Hermia through the years:
1. (first picture) she’s just about [...]

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“I noticed the bushy sand-colored mustache that curled at his lips’ corners.” –from the novel, Mysterious Skin, by Scott Heim.
I decided it was time for a change, so I shaved off part of my Morgan Spurlock–
Or my Morgan Spurlock-inspired goatee thingy.
I’ve had it since about 2005, I think.
Here’s a pic of the [...]

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