Gaining Something in the Translation

  I’m not sure what I was thinking, somehow planning to post my response to Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In today. I must have forgotten how quickly and completely the term teaching schedule swallows me. That…

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Weekend Fun, Family Style!

I’m reading Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In right now and thinking deeply about my own lifetime balance between family and career as well as what I hope my daughters and granddaughters and daughter-in-law might manage. I’m going…

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Hat Attack — What I Did/n’t Wear for Back to School

I thought I could do the “two birds, one stone” thing here, and model a hat forStyle Crone’s September gathering of the hair-covering clan (mine, obviously, just won’t. be. covered.) while showing you one of…

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Perplexed? That’s a Good Thing . . .

I found this wonderful quotation at one of the expositions at Barcelona’s Fundació Miró this past June. It’s got nothing, otherwise, to do with Miró directly, but I couldn’t resist accompanying it with a photo…

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Summer . . . Best Enjoyed Before . . . .

 I suspect you’re all out in the last summer sunshine, perhaps with your families, friends, loved ones, perhaps enjoying some solitude. I notice that my blog stats show fewer readers this weekend, and I think…

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