I love sacred music and I love choral music, and Christmas time provides ample opportunities to enjoy both. There were so many TV programs scheduled for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day that I had to plan how I could experience all of them. I made myself a schedule and identified which ones I would record [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Christmas break
Posted in Crazy patchwork S, S CQ block, S crazy patchwork, crazy patchwork, hand embroidery on December 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Featured essay
Posted in CFS on December 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
An essay I wrote ten years ago about learning to live with the neurological disorder I have is being featured at present as a “success story” at a self-help site for people with similar problems. Look for it in the upper right.
Christmas greetings
Posted in Personal on December 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
To all my readers and friends, I’m wishing you peace and joy.
Quiet time
Posted in Charlestown, Personal, blogging, book reviews, physics, reading on December 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
For the next few weeks or maybe longer, I will be posting either very little or not at all. The reason for this time-out is so that I can focus on learning about and thinking about modern physics.
An English major, I’ve always had some interest in science. I first became interested in physics about 20 [...]
Getting it right
Posted in Personal on December 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Thanks to all of you who left comments and e-mailed me about my last post, “What I should not do.” As is often the case, you’ve gotten me thinking.
In the first EGA correspondence course I took, as part of the first lesson the teacher asked for my personal needlework history, including answers to some questions [...]
What I should not do
Posted in Esther, Personal, gifts, hand embroidery on December 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Make things in haste.
You may remember Esther, our friend and neighbor three floors below us, down the hall, and around the corner. Last year I made a card for her 98th birthday. This year, her daughter, recently retired from the Foreign Service, and Esther’s neighbor across the hall have invited us to a party to [...]
