Monthly Archives: December 2006

Darlene yesterday finished this quilt, begun during the Fall Foliage Ramble, in time to submit it for a show that will hang in the Colorado Capitol. It’s a spectacular piece that captures the colors of our two months on the … Continue reading →

Darlene and I made it home to Denver just ahead of the big snowstorm. The city is quiet and gorgeous from my window in the den, with very few vehicles or even pedestrians. We had a wonderful month in Cambridge, … Continue reading →

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Here are some internet pearls I’ve found using StumbleUpon in the past week or so: Wisdomquotes.com – an incredibly extensive list of quotes, by categories. From the Christmas group, I found this one from Garrison Keillor: “A lovely thing about … Continue reading →

For Christmas Eve, I’m offering up this eight-minute excerpt from Bill Clinton’s address to the Slate 60 gathering of philanthropists on November 13, 2006 at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock. Talking about what it means to be truly … Continue reading →

Click here for a doggone cute video podcast prepared by the White House. It features the President, Laura, and their two dogs, with a few Cabinet secretaries thrown in for good measure. (This is a reward to my mother the … Continue reading →

I’ve been caught in a loop for the past hour, and it’s nearly midnight. The only way I can get out of it is to warn others, to post words to my blog. The site is StumbleUpon, and it quickly … Continue reading →

Click here for a 10-minute audio from Sen. Barack Obama’s visit to the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver. It includes an inspired intro by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. Great fun, wish we’d been there. A couple of Obama treats from … Continue reading →

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Winter Beach Girls, originally uploaded by LenEdgerly. Darlene and Claire enjoy the sun at Ocean Park, Maine, during our … Continue reading →

1) Obama-mania, which Darlene and I are going to sample first-hand today in Manchester, N.H., where Barack will sign books at a gathering at the Frank Jones Center, a venue where all 700 available tickets were snapped up last week. … Continue reading →