I am really embarrassed … I missed the 09:39 mark for the ISS; I was playing an online Hangman game. This would not have happened in the sixties!
Ron called Anada and me to the backyard…9:15pm…there goes the space station chased by the shuttle. The speed is magnificant…and so is the brightness of the two machines. Unlike Sputnik…just a high flying dot in the winter sky, alone. Yes, Sputnik was first. But this seems more brilliant. And closer. Well, 40+ years between can make a difference.
Source: The Star-Ledger, Tuesday, May 29, 2007, p. 36.
How did the Business Section of the newspaper know about our neighborly groundhog, Fred? He is a quiet, solitary fellow who has successfully created two paths under the fence to our juicy backyard lawn.
He keeps Izzy dog very happy with games of tag.
Through time we’ve experienced these paintings—and just took for granted that they have always been part of the collections. But, yes, somebody did have to have a vision to collect the works. The Clark brothers were wonderful collectors.
Going back in time—with the music and art of the 60s. A fun exhibit to experience again and again. But I still have problems walking in flashing strobe lights.
Mark Twain House, Hartford - May 16, 2007
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Our guide mentioned the high esteem in which the Clemons family held their butler. But the Clemons children did not play with the children from the carriage house.
Grandpop’s chairs—the cane seated two—are in Mom’s dining room and in the Clemons’s servants’ eating area; Grandpop’s coffee grinder on my mantle is very much like the one in the Clemons’s servants’ kitchen. With whom would I be playing?
Luis Rodriguez, Kean University, and John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation, share the podium. NJLA Annual Conference. College & University Section ACRL-NJ Chapter Luncheon. Long Branch, NJ. April 25, 2007
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