I've done a good amount of writing here in the last 3 years.  I have also had some great conversations, deepened friendships- and I can even say three of my very good friendships (mikeytehwinz , brian_c_boston , jasereraser ) were largely forged from initial conversations on LJ.

It's getting harder for me to make time to blog for myself though.  Speechtechie is doing pretty well, and I ( Read more... )

But totally OK with it.  Back to that in a minute ( Read more... )

God seems to be gracing us at least with crises that pass relatively quickly nowadays...that's something!

June 3, 2010
Dear Friends of Maeve:
Thank you for all of your well-wishes and prayers. A recurring theme voiced by many of you was “Enough already!” and “What else should this little girl have to handle?” Well, as usual, your prayers must have ( Read more... )

Written as always by my sister Stacey:

June 2, 2010

Dear Friends of Maeve:
Maeve has been admitted to Floating Hospital because of a serious reaction to her anti-seizure medication (Trileptal). After 11 days on the very gradually increasing dose, she has developed a God-awful rash all over her body. She must be observed very closely and stay ( Read more... )

Chris and I went to see the Boston Pops the other night with guest performer Idina Menzel!  I was so excited to see her that I actually had no idea what the rest of the program was, and was pleasantly surprised to find some Arthur Fiedler (conducting classics) and John Williams (compositions) on the program.  This is the 125th anniversary of the ( Read more... )

mikeytehwinz  asked me to be an extra in his group's entry into this year's 48 Hour Film Fest project, and it was a lot of fun.  If you don't know about 48 Hour, it's an international competition where people in many cities enter, structuring their project (to be completed in 48 hours) around an assigned genre, prop, line, and character.  His group always does ( Read more... )

Beautifully written by my sister Stacey as always.  Tough week for everyone- thanks all again for your words of support!  Saw Maeve tonight and she is looking her old self!

May 4, 2010

Dear Friends of Maeve:

I swear that I am not making this up: as Maeve arrived HOME from the hospital (yeah!!!) a rainbow filled the sky over her ( Read more... )

Please keep my niece Maeve in your prayers.  Maeve completed several rounds of chemo over the past years to treat relatively benign tumors in her spine.  Let's hope things continue to be stable after this little blip.  Here is my sister Stacey's update on this weekend...

May 2, 2010
Dear Friends of Maeve:
I am writing to tell you of an unwelcome bump ( Read more... )

Hi There. I haven't totally abandoned this blog, but I started a new one, SpeechTechie, more for professional purposes, and I have been focusing on that one quite a bit.

Things are good. Last weekend, to kick off our April vacation, we went down to NYC and saw Promises, Promises. This is a revival of a 1968 musical based on Billy Wilder's The ( Read more... )

I am not much interested in Demi Moore and Parker Posey's new movie, Happy Tears, nor am I all that interested in her as an actress.  She hasn't done much for me since her semi-smoldering office vixen in Disclosure, though even in that, she made the worst supposedly-menacing, file-cabinet-raiding avatar in film history.


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