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Tatting question
Yeah, I know. Long time no see.
Are there any NC tatters going to the state fair? I'll be there the last saturday and hoped to meet-up.
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Score!
Once a year the local film/TV critic cleans off his shelves at home and donates crates of DVDs, VHS tapes and CDs to the PL. And, if you are lucky enough to be there when the librarians put the stash out on the "discards" sales table , there are some real treasures. I was too late, or thought I was ( Read more... ) -
Sister Study
The Sister Study is looking for subjects whose sisters have or have had breast cancer, in particular Asian, Latinas and African American women, as well as Caucasian women ages 65-74 with a HS education or less.
http://www.sisterstudy.org/English/index1.htm
It involves a telephone interview, a written questionaire, and a nurse visit for body fluid ( Read more... ) -
Week 3 Homework: Random Thoughts on Chapter 12 & Epilogue of Sherwin Nuland's _How We Die_.
Nuland says that there is no dignity in dying; the only dignity is in how we choose to live our lives. And I agree. Dying is a messy degrading business as our bodies fail us. My mother faced her death with the grace that she exhibited in her daily life. She was a nurse after all and had intuitively provided the kind of support her patients ( Read more... ) -
Happenings
Haldane stopped by last month and we had a nice dinner together. (Yes, I have pictures, and if the gods are with me, I may even get caught up and post everything that I've made this year...maybe ( Read more... ) -
Update
LJ tells me it has been 11 weeks since my last posting. To be fair, you know how things are when I'm working! And I just started my summer break, this past Monday. After the teachers left, I attended a primary sources workshop at the Library of Congress. I got to go down into the bowels of the LOC and look at George Washington's farm journals. I' ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: The Best Thing You've Done
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Writer's Block: Back in Time
1700s. World politics ( Read more... )
