Category: Ephemera

windows

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They take my kitchen windows away to fix them. There will be thick plywood there until. Dreadful dark. I am not happy. I need the light or I will wither. And I will not cheer myself up with these, found in Dave Barry’s blog.

Birthday dinner

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This is Barbara at the birthday dinner for her and my husband Buck tonight. It’s a bit fuzzy because I took it with my camera-phone. She’s got on an old hat of my mother’s that we just discovered (along with a loaded pistol) in her condo. The hat is from the Fifties, when Mom went … Continue reading Birthday dinner

Mathematics and life

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I have slept through my springtime sleepiness, and am noticing things are settling into their warm-weather demeanor. The afternoon is sunny in a way that just doesn’t happen in January, regardless of the presence or lack of clouds. What is up with the world? I read earlier in the print edition of the WSJ that … Continue reading Mathematics and life