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Entries from March 2005

What do we do all day?

March 5th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Laura described the restlessness of snow days spent at home: When the class parent called this morning to announce the cancellation of school, she groaned. “What am I going to do with them today?,” the parent wondered. I have dressed and undressed the kids three times for the outside; shoveled the driveway; did a puzzle; […]

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Tags: family

Blink and you’ll miss it: celebrities on Bainbridge

March 5th, 2005 · 1 Comment

oops! – I failed to post this in time for the reception Friday night. My apologies. Josie Gray’s paintings will be at gallery Fraga until March 26. _________________ Call it a benefit of blogging: the other day I received a postcard announcing a new show at Bainbridge Island’s gallery Fraga by Josie Gray with an […]

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Tags: books

Crustacean entry in the Blog of Death

March 5th, 2005 · No Comments

After reading a number of Robert Scoble’s links to the Blog of Death, I decided to subscribe to it myself. Perhaps this may be an example of how to convince others to read a certain blog: link often to it, and ensure that the blog has unique and valuable content. Death may be a morbid […]

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Tags: news

“And we became family.”

March 5th, 2005 · No Comments

From an article in Thursday’s Seattle Times: Group prepares for an African homecoming in Kenya: It was on the group’s first visit, in 2000, that a Kenyan woman put a question to Arunga and her companions. “She said, ‘You call yourselves African Americans. Where in Africa do you come from?’ ” recalls Arunga, 46. “Because […]

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Purple sky or How to know your camera is kaput

March 5th, 2005 · 1 Comment

When we first bought our digital camera, almost five years ago, I thought of it as “Ted’s”. I had the simple film camera, which still seemed more practical to me, since we didn’t have a proper printer, and he had the Canon Powershot whose images could live only on the computer. I didn’t use the […]

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