I have actually done a bunch of things since late March. Looking back, I actually wrote about more of it than I thought I had (e.g. board games and some storytelling related things, including Grimm Keepers). So here’s an attempt to get up to date on everything except the Israeli Dance camp I went to in association with the eclipse, which deserves ( Read more... )

I will get to things I’ve been doing real soon now, but first, here’s the first set of blog prompts from March.

1. Can You Separate Art From the Artist? I wrestle with this. There are definitely people with repugnant ideas who have produced great art. Some of those I can write off as products of their times. So, I guess the answer is mostly a ( Read more... )

We’ve gotten through the first three months of the year, so it’s time for a quarterly update.

Books: I got through 15 books in January through March.

1. Nell Painter, Old in Art School. I don’t remember who recommended this to me, but I talked one of my book clubs into it. The idea of a woman retiring from a prestigious academic career (as a ( Read more... )

The Fifth Annual Women’s Storytelling Festival was held on March 14th through 17th, 2024 in Old Town Hall in Fairfax, Virginia and live-streamed. It was, as always, an incredible experience.

Thursday night: The show on Thursday the 14th was entirely virtual and featured non-local women who were unable to travel here for the festival. Jessica ( Read more... )

I’ve been fairly busy over the past few weeks. The biggest thing was the Women’s Storytelling Festival, which deserves its own entry. In the meantime, you can still buy a virtual ticket through April 1st and listen to 16 hours of recorded stories. Go to the WSF ticketing pageIn terms of other stuff I’ve been doing, here is what I can decipher ( Read more... )

And here’s the other set of February blog prompts with my answers. Note that the sometimes odd punctuation is from the author of these. I’m too lazy to fix it.

1 Feb: International Face & Body Art Day: Do you have tattoos? What’s the most memorable tattoo you’ve seen on someone else? I do not have tattoos and would never willingly get one. ( Read more... )

I’ve been busy with several things worth writing about, but first let’s look at the first group of last month’s questions.

1. Are We Becoming ‘Numb’ to School Shootings? I’m afraid it looks that way. There’s no longer the same level of news coverage and associated shock. I’m not sure I’d limit that to school shootings, however. I think the ( Read more... )

From 29 February through 2 March, I was at RootsTech, which is a huge annual genealogy convention. It’s hard to tell how many people participate because they sell millions of tickets for the on-line event, which I’ve done the past couple of years. The problem with going on-line is that there is so much stuff that it’s hard to decide which ( Read more... )

Once I fall behind, it always gets tempting to procrastinate further. So, come on, let me buckle down and write an actual entry.

Celebrity Death Watch: Hinton Battle was a Tony Award winning actor and dancer. Carl Weathers was an actor, best known for playing Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky movies. John Walker was a co-founder of ( Read more... )

This is from the other set of monthly questions. The full list is at stonepicnicking-okapi’s site.

1 Jan: Polar Bear Plunge Day: What’s the coldest you’ve ever been? What’s the coldest place you’ve ever been? It was about -26 Fahrenheit when I was in Churchill, Manitoba, where I went to see real live polar bears. Churchill was, in fact, ( Read more... )