Category Archives: Family

Closets, part 2

February 28, 2010 – 10:54 am

For those of you just tuning in, I have two sisters who are professional artists. The one who does theater scenery and tromp l’oeil lives here in town, and when I moved into my new house some years back, she decided to paint my closets for me. With scenes from children’s books/movies. I’ve already posted [...]

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Well, that was exhausting.

February 3, 2010 – 10:34 pm

I just (and I mean just, as in, haven’t unpacked the suitcase yet) got back from Chicago. The planned five-day trip turned into six (I should have known better than to schedule the meeting with the lawyer for the last day), but the estate tax return is now signed and with the lawyer to file, [...]

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Making soup

January 9, 2010 – 12:15 pm

It’s been a little over a year since my mother died, and one of the things I inherited from her was her collection of cookbooks.
It’s quite a collection, too. When Mom ran out of space on the kitchen cookbook shelf, she just started putting them elsewhere. I’ve taken three large boxes and two paper bags full of cookbooks [...]

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Security, My Great-Aunt Martha.

December 29, 2009 – 11:25 am

I flew down to Alabama for the Big Family Christmas this year. That meant I also flew back the day after Christmas.
Which was also the day after some idiot tried to blow up a plane over Detroit.
My sister and I were lucky - the new “security precautions” didn’t get put into place until after we [...]

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The First of the Closets

December 20, 2009 – 11:46 pm

As promised, here are the first couple of closet pictures. As some of you already know, I have the coolest closets in the world. My sister Carol, who used to paint theater scenery for a living, decided to “redecorate” the interiors of of my ordinary boring closets with decor from my favorite children’s books. This [...]

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Stories are a way of life

June 21, 2009 – 7:08 am

When I was a kid, my father told us bedtime stories. The five of us would get together in our pajamas and sit around on the biggest bed in the house, and Dad would turn the lights down or off and start talking. Unlike many parents who do this sort of thing, he never, to the [...]

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