The genealogy conference schedule had turned out to be very convenient for me, since a crossword tournament I like a lot was conveniently in New York on the weekend after the conference in Philadelphia. So I had arranged to go to Lollapuzzoola on Saturday and throw in some theatre going on both Friday and Saturday nights.

The Outsiders: I’d ( Read more... )

I’ve been fairly busy over the past few weeks. The biggest thing was the Women’s Storytelling Festival, which deserves its own entry. In the meantime, you can still buy a virtual ticket through April 1st and listen to 16 hours of recorded stories. Go to the WSF ticketing pageIn terms of other stuff I’ve been doing, here is what I can decipher ( Read more... )

Once I fall behind, it always gets tempting to procrastinate further. So, come on, let me buckle down and write an actual entry.

Celebrity Death Watch: Hinton Battle was a Tony Award winning actor and dancer. Carl Weathers was an actor, best known for playing Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky movies. John Walker was a co-founder of ( Read more... )

Celebrity Death Watch: Bill Rice was a country music singer and songwriter. Robert Brustein was a theatre critic. Ado Ibrahim was the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland, which is some sort of Nigerian traditional ruler. Frank “Hondo” Howard played outfield and first base for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Washington Senators (who became the Texas Rangers ( Read more... )

Grounded: I went to see the opera, Grounded, at the Kennedy Center on Saturday night. The story involves a female F-16 fighter pilot who gets pregnant as a result of an affair with a rancher while on leave in Wyoming. She takes 8 years off, but returns to the Air Force and is shunted into being a drone pilot. She resents that at first, but she ( Read more... )

Español: Estoy estudiando español con Duolingo para mas de 365 días. Yo lo disfruto mucho. Pero todavía no sabe muchas palabras. Porque mi vocabulario es tan poco, no entiendo todas las conversaciones que oi en el tren, por example. Leo mejor que yo escucho, y entiendo la mayoría de los avisos veo. Me parece que es una buena idea para viajar a ( Read more... )

First, a bit of shameless self-promotion:

Saturday night (tomorrow!) I’m part of a storytelling show at The Stagecoach Theatre in Ashburn, Virginia. The theme is Wild West and stories about frontiers. It’s being live-streamed, so you don’t have to be local to attend. Tickets and more information are at
the theatre’s websiteSpeaking of which, ( Read more... )

I have a bunch of things to write about. The biggest one is the rest of the presentations from the Jewish genealogy conference, but that really demands its own longer entry.

Shameless Self-Promotion: Artists Sanding Strong Together puts on an intergenerational storytelling event on the first Friday of the month. I am part of the show on ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to write and not managing to find time. I spent a lot of time over the past week or so making some travel arrangements, which included coordinating getting together with various friends, as well as buying theatre tickets and museum tickets and such. Much of that was frustrating because every venue has a different system, some of ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to post here and not getting around to it. Here’s an update.

Celebrity Death Watch: Carola Eisenberg died in March at the age of 103. She was the Dean of Students at MIT during at least part of my undergraduate days and was the first woman to hold that position. Adlai Stevenson III was a senator from Illinois through the 1970’s ( Read more... )