Yesterday at work, my boss and I were looking at the Medical Illustration Source Book. It had arrived unsolicited in the mail a few days ago and I was showing it to her to see if she thought it was worth keeping; I didn’t think it was. The book is basically a big [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2007
Choosing to Dwell on the Positive Memories
I remember. . .
Driving with my parents down to Charleston, IL to see my brother in an original musical at Eastern Illinois University. It was a show with three characters: Adam, Eve, and the snake. My brother played the snake with sly, sinister savvy.
Traveling to Virginia to see my brother’s show at Busch [...]
It Turns Out the Trouble Isn’t the South. It’s Me.
Example number two of why Steve can’t take me anywhere.
Recently we went to a lovely dinner party at a friend’s house. It was a post-holiday, meet our new baby kind of dinner party, with friends from the Lucas days. As we were sitting around chatting before dinner, the TMX Elmo was introduced. [...]
Oh, the irony. The sweet, sweet irony.
I love this use of the Library of Congress! Congressman Keith Ellison “the first Muslim elected to Congress took his oath of office using a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson to make the point that ‘religious differences are nothing to be afraid of.’” LOC has owned it since 1815. “The chief [...]
An example of why Steve can’t take me anywhere
Our first stop after leaving the Nashville airport during our trip “home for the holidays” was dinner at Cracker Barrel. For those uninitiated, the Cracker Barrel specializes in Southern cuisine, featuring chicken fried steak, chicken fried chicken, and fried okra, all available as part of the traditional “Meat and Three”. (That’s choose a [...]