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Live Theater, Film and Music
It has been a week of cultural activities for us. Thursday night we attended the Center Stage production of Next to Normal, the rock musical. This Tony winning and Pultizer Prize musical tackles the family dynamics of a bipolar mother and wife. The two-story set is amazing and worth the price of admission. This was…
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Do I Dare?
In another week, I will be teaching a 4-week class on Blogging for Beginners for our Elderhostel Lifelong Learning Institute (ELLIC) program. Is this a joke? No! Even though, I am not posting 3 – 5 times a week like some folks, I know the mechanics, and I am a good teacher. My passion is to…
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A View from the Monastery
I always enjoy visits with my youngest sister. I like to say my sister, the sister. She is indeed a Discalced Carmelite (OCD) nun in a monastery in Pittsford, NY, just two blocks from Rochester, NY. We use the iPad to show her the family photos. This time I had her take a few photos…
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Elections, No Not Those
We have a big election coming up next Wednesday. For most of the world, it may not be much but for our community, it means a change in the composition of the Residents’ Council. Seven new council members will be selected out of the 14 candidates. As chair of the Nominating and Elections Committee, I…
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International Extravaganza
Once a year the diversity and inclusion Council at Charlestown holds an International Extravaganza. This year staff were involved with exhibit tables. There were also tasting stations with food samples. Dan and I put together a Celtic Heritage table highlighting the similarilities between the Irish and Scottish heritage. Posted with Blogsy
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Life in a Diary
Mom’s Diary 1940 -1944 Do you keep a diary or journal? My mother did. She was a diarist using those 5-year diaries that have a small space for five years on one page. After she died in 2012 at age 95, I took possession of the diaries. They started in 1940 and ended shortly before…
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Funerals
I am so glad I was getting things done ahead of time because when Dan got the call from North Dakota about his cousin going off kidney dialysis, he wanted to go visit him before he died. I am the travel planner so I made reservations for ND to leave on June 23. But we…
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Retire is a Misnomer
When I think about this past month, the term retire just doesn’t fit. The dictionary says RETIRE means leave one’s job and cease to work, typically upon reaching the normal age for leaving employment. It certainly doesn’t reflect what is happening with me. I was scrambling to complete tasks related to chairing the Nominating and…