Author: Ann
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Marshall Town Meeting
I joined 1000 people to attend Congressman Jim Marshall’s Town Meeting. The crowd was overwhelmingly against any kind of reform. Marshall is opposed to the current bills because of the fiscal impact. A small delegation of reform supporters held up signs for the cameras before the meeting started. He answered questions for almost 3 hours.…
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Booth Western Art Museum
I saw an ad for this museum in the Georgia magazine and was intrigued to see an exhibit titled, Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography. Since we had been there and since we both like the West, we did an overnight trip to Cartersville, GA. The town is about 30 miles north of…
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Move to WordPress
I have moved the blog from iWeb to WordPress. I should have more flexibility with it and I need to learn more about it as I do other WordPress sites. I am using the same theme for the three sites I update. There were some easy to use features with iWeb especially with photo albums…
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Broken Bone
After walking around for three weeks with a sore right foot, the retired nurse finally went to the doctor and discovered she has a fractured fifth metatarsal. That this the the long foot bone attached to the pinkie toe. Now I am clunking around with this boot for four weeks. I hope it works so…
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Not Moving
We decided not to move to Virginia after all. The house is off the market and we have a decluttered house. It just wasn’t the right fit for us. We will stay here for awhile and put off the retirement community idea indefinitely.
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Family Gathering in Washington
Dan and his nephew and four neices gathered at Sequim, Washington for a family get-together. It was the first time for many of them seeing each other in 40 years. We stayed for several days with Tim and Adrianne in Port Angeles. We also took the ferry to Victoria, BC and then the train to…
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Achievement Award
I received the Georgia AAUW Women of Achievement award at the April state convention but I was not in attendence. It was nice that I was presented the award at the Summer Leaderhip meeting held in July. It was for the work I did on revamping the state website. It is now on a WordPress…
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AAUW Convention
Peggy Woods-Clark, AAUW webmanager, asked me to speak at the two technology sessions during the convention. I did a 20 minute presentation on AAUW Tools: What Every State Leader Needs to Know. Peggy was the other presenter. I also participated as a panel member about tools. I covered Social Tools. It was an honor to…