2013
Carpenter’s Point, MD
Carpenter’s Point, MD
My age: 57- 58
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| from my garden |
Home: I am now living, full time, in a rural community, tucked away from the mainstream and about 30 miles north of Baltimore. This was a very long, isolated winter. But I do get to spend more time on my garden in the spring and summer. And I now have the opportunity to kayak every day as my house is 20 yards away from the North East River.
School- I took classes at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (AKA Geriatric University). Mostly I took courses in writing, photography, travel and economics. I also took a course at my local community college on photography and zentangle (doodling).
Music-
Movies- I love to go to the movies.
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| Norway Art Museum |
- All is Lost- I am tired of movies that star Robert Redford.
- American Hustler- a fun movie to watch.
- August Osage County- it was OK.
- The Butler- I enjoyed it.
- Captain Phillips- thrilling and scary.
- The Great Gatsby- I thought this movie did a great job of showing Gatsby's extravagance.
- In a World
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Nebraska- a good story line.
- Philomena- this movie made me so angry, once again, with the Catholic Church.
- Saving Mr. Banks- an entertaining movie
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| The White Cliffs of Dover |
Books
- I am listening to David Sedaris on audiobooks. He is a clever writer. I particularly like his story on being an elf At Macy's during the Christmas season. It is so damn funny. I try to listen to this story every year now.
- A Walk in The Woods- I have listened to this book so many times that I can just put in any CD and just pick up the story. And I still laugh right out loud when I listen to it.
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| Philadelphia |
Travels
- · I spent the summer in Jacmel, Haiti where I supervised the Haiti Family Initiative Program. We offered a medical clinic, a women’s empowerment class, sports programs, art classes and school-readiness programs.
- · I visited my high school friend, Marie Barcia in England. We went to see the play, The Book of Mormons.
- I traveled to NJ, DE, CO, NY
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| Norway |
- I took a trip with the Semester at Sea program. What a great program! I could take a trip like this every year. We traveled by ship for 3 weeks and visited:
- England
- Germany
- Norway
- Sweden
- Denmark
- Latvia
- Russia
News events
- The Affordable Care Act is a controversial piece of legislation that was a great benefit to me. My health insurance cost dropped $300/month.
- Nelson Medela died and the whole world mourned for him.
- Two jerks dropped bombs during the Boston Marathon. And the Boston cops put on a man hint for them that was admirable and determined. The cops found those fuckers in two days.
- Ed Snowden leaked classified information about NSA spying on all of us.
- The Federal Government shut down for 16 long days.
- Pope Francis becomes the pope and wins over every one's hearts.
- Gay Marriage is passed by the Supreme Court.
- Three women are released from captivity in a house in Cleveland. The kidnapper was arrested and eventually hung himself in his jail cell before the trial.
- Detroit filed for bankruptcy. That city has lots of troubles.
- The country is up in arms over the killing of Travon Martin by George Zimmerman who is acquitted of murder charges.
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| Haiti |
Family and friends
- I had my 40th high school reunion. I made an effort to find every one of my classmates and I was fairly successful.
- I spent my first winter at Carpenter's Point, MD which is a very rural area. The winter was quiet, cold, snowy, bitter and longggggg!!!
- My friends from San Diego visited for a week.
- My friend, Sue, is diagnosed with cancer of the saliva glands. I never heard of that cancer.
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