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Just about my favorite holiday! Good friends, family, good food, time to reflect and get ready for the wild holiday ride of the next month. Wishing the same for all of you, especially my sister, Nathalie, who just came home from an operation, my nephew, Jonna, who is in Afghanistan, and my friend, Dennis.

I mentioned before that I used to weave. (See post Oct 12, 2009—I Had a Life as a Weaver.) I don’t weave now but I still like things woven. I was sent a most amazing email this morning on weaving with Spider Silk. I knew spider silk was one of the strongest fibers and that [...]

I live in a fairly urban area. Granted there are yards with lots of trees and gardens and it is about 3 blocks to a large park along a busy bus route, but it is in the City of Philadelphia and the usual wild life we get are stray cats and a possum or two. [...]

Kaitlin should be working on her cheesy type project but instead she is reading my blog. What’s a teacher to do?

Well, it’s November, Halloween is over and the Phillies have been scary, so whatch gonna do? It rained all week but now its bright and sunny. Maybe this game will turn around too. We were on location last week in cranberry bogs in NJ and it was just after the yearly harvest. To harvest the [...]