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In April, after some shuffling of schedules, Diane Atkins and I and one of Diane’s longtime friends who’d come to Florida to escape Indian Winter up north, headed up to Gainesville to view a pair of art exhibits, both hung around a “Kimono” theme.
Our first stop was the Harn Museum on the University of Florida [...:]

Sometimes, as much by accident or luck as by design, something damaged appears to heal…
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It’s taken a month, but the carpenter ants have finished: The Closed Circle site where my friends CJ Cherryh and Jane Fancher and I intend to establish ourselves (and, more importantly, our work) on the Internet is up. We have graphics. We have links. We have ideas… We don’t have much in the way of [...:]

The question is the title of one of my favorite songs. It was written (and best performed) by Sandy Denny. (There are several clips out on YouTube). Sandy died, unfortunately, in 1978–another one of those musicians whose candle burnt a little too brightly at both ends–so, for her, the question become moot. I, on the [...:]

The observant will note that Face of Chaos is looking a bit more austere right now.
Apparently my old look/feel theme wasn’t completely compatible with the version of Wordpress that I installed when I migrated everything to the new server last week. I could have simply ported everything into a fully compatible theme, but I’ve grown [...:]

I was having a fairly ordinary day for most of today…that is I was flailing away at my to-do list and falling behind at my usual rate. I’d really wanted to finish kitting the milkman’s wallet I’m going to be teaching at the Embroiderers’ Guild this week and next before I headed down to my [...:]

Actually, I solved the problem a while ago, it’s updating the blog that’s taken forever.
The problem was my parents’ television set. Back after the holidays, when we all thought that The Great Television Signal Shift was going to take place in February, my mom prevailed upon my dad to replace the world’s largest CRT television [...:]

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Another year headed for the record books. I turned 60 this year…that alone made for several surreal months. A friend of mine tags all his emails with the line "Inside every old person is a young person wondering…what happened?" I have asked myself that question many times lately.
Things got off to a good start when [...:]

Another year headed for the record books. I turned 60 this year…that alone made for several surreal months. A friend of mine tags all his emails with the line “Inside every old person is a young person wondering…what happened?” I have asked myself that question many times lately.
Things got off to a good start when [...:]