Hard for me to believe, I turned in my master’s thesis yesterday around 4.  I find this bizarre.  Good, exciting, but just… anticlimactic.  Made me miss Reed and Renn Fayre and champagne and party horns in the registrar’s office.
Anyway, I’ve promised a few of my friends, family, and super-helpful re-enactor friends copies, but if you’re [...]

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It might not be the world’s most beautiful garden, but I’m hoping we get enough herbs from it to justify the $20 I had to spend getting it all ready.  I’ve planted basil in the long rectangular pot, some cilantro in the circular pot next to it, and a radish plant in that pot on [...]

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A friend suggested I read Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” but promptly warned me that this book would probably terrify me and chill my soul.  She was right on both accounts.  There is little for me to add to the many, many articles and television segments that have been created on this book. It is a [...]

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No poetry Friday today, I’ll get back to a semi-normal posting schedule next week.  I just learned about this Summit of Awesome happening in DC and want to go so bad!  It is just over a week away and, for some reason, I can’t decide if I should go.  Perhaps the ticket price ($180/3 days [...]

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Old Times There Are Not Forgotten
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All of a sudden, my thesis is about 95% behind me.  As of about 11 AM this morning all I have yet to do is proofread, print, and submit to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.  My goodness, it feels good and completly overwhelming.
I’ve put [...]

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An image of the Library Bath (via DecoJournal and NotCot)
Hello new friend.  The Library Bath?!  My G-d, I’d never leave the tub.  Sure, you might splash on your books but wow… can you imagine?  And the top is flat, so you can put your wine there.  This delightful tub comes from Swedish designer Malin Lundmark [...]

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Here is the Wordle representation of my thesis (also known as my brain).  It’s due to my advisor and reader on Thursday (gasp).  I promise I’ll share it with you when I’m done… in 4 days.  Yeah, you might not be seeing me around so much for the next couple of days.

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“Telephone Dial” from Leo Reynold’s Flickr Stream.
Licensed via the Creative Commons.

This week I’m going to send you over to the Dial-a-Poem project.  This began in the late 1960s when telephony was the hip new thing.  You can read a lot about the original project at the New York Times and at the Poetry Foundation’s [...]

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Just a very quick note today– thesis is still keeping me busy.  I’ve nominated Michele Gregg, who worked as an underground abortion counselor in the 1960s, for the first ever Our Bodies Our Blog “Women’s Health Hero” award.  Please go vote for my video of Michele and then thank your mother’s generation for fighting a [...]

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Afraid I’m going to have to sign off for a few days… my thesis is calling me.  Soon, though, I’ll share the final product with you.  For now, I’m going old school cut-n-paste technology.  Usually it helps.

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