Zum Gali Gali Rubber Stamps was invited to present a workshop at a Jewish education conference in Rhode Island that was today. The conference was on integrating art into Jewish education. The keynote speaker talked about theories of multiple intelligence, teaching with art, and teaching by art. Arlene had prepared a big display board with [...]
I walked around Cutler Park today for the first time in several weeks. Just when I left my building something big flew like a bat out of hell towards the p0nd. My first reaction was “pigeon” but it wasn’t. I think it was a falcon, maybe a merlin. By the time I got halfway along [...]
For the first Sunday in a month I went to the bagel store to buy breakfast. It was pretty late and they were out of bialys, or I would have got one of those too.
Speaking of food, did I mention that on the way back from the caning shoppe on Saturday we stopped off at [...]
Every once in a while we go on a shopping spree and Arlene says to whomever is listening, “Today we were the great American consumers.” Today it was more like the great Swedish consumers. Yes, fans, we’ve been to Ikea. We were looking in particular for lamps and a TV stand for the house in [...]
We drove back to Charley’s apartment (he followed, but was much later than we were because he got stuck behind a funeral which we barely missed) and walked to the Mexican place, I think it’s Rudy’s, in Teele for a big lunch. Then I persuaded Arlene to let me go to the caning shoppe to [...]
Charley is in a 3-person show at the Cambridge Art Association. He’s one of two photographers who are mostly showing nudes, but neither is showing much in the way of whole people. Charley has lots of close-ups that are obviously body parts but not clear on just what, and several multiple exposures or, really, multiple [...]
I had to go in to work late this evening to check on the results of my tests. On the way down Winchester Street, near the Nahanton Street end, I saw an animal in the middle of the road. It was pretty small, nowhere near big enough to be a deer. I slowed down so [...]
