The Arts

Sandy’s Story: Back to College 2010

August 30, 2010
By Sandy Gerger
Sandy’s Story: Back to College 2010

Hmmmm.   Back to school.  A topic fraught with pride, expectation, a little fear, and a sense of inevitablility. All I can convey to you is my experience from my not so typical perspective on the subject. Some background.  My daughter Elizabeth and I are unusually close.  I had her late in life, an only...
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Liz’s Story: Back to College 2010

August 29, 2010
By Liz Gerger
Liz’s Story: Back to College 2010

While attending your average summer party, a rising college sophomore like myself will be asked the same two questions perpetually throughout the evening: One,  “How was your first year at college?” and two, “are you excited to be going back to school?”. In an attempt to spare my acquaintance from the bursting floodgates of...
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Photo Friday: Caption Contest

August 27, 2010
By Hal
Photo Friday: Caption Contest

Fences! This picture needs a caption! Write a caption and maybe win a prize!  Please send this link to all your friends, maybe one of them will win! Let’s see what captions, you all can come up with for this one! People love the prize, give it a try, anyone could win, why not...
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My Writing and the World of Punctuation, According to Hal!

August 24, 2010
By Hal
My Writing and the World of Punctuation, According to Hal!

Well, here I am ,writing again! I have learned to love writing, and I do not obsess over it.  I hope people like what I write and want to read it, but, if they don’t what can you do!  Obsessing over it isn’t going to make people read what I have to write or...
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Cool email: LoGo Trivia

August 23, 2010
By Anonymous
Cool email: LoGo Trivia

An  interesting bit of LoGo  trivia… I  was not aware of these things…guess I’ll have to start  watching logo’s more  carefully. If  you look at the center of this logo, you can see two  people enjoying a Tostitos chip with a bowl of salsa. This  logo conveys an idea of people connecting with each...
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Constellation

August 16, 2010
By Hal
Constellation

• Maya has a constellation of beauty marks on her shoulder They seem gathered together subtly, they could be bolder • Her reserved non-talking stares and smiles confirm her happiness The cats are afraid of her, maybe they know more about the constellation • Is it a galaxy where life is filled with sunshine...
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Lady Of Leisure: Blue’s Clues, Chuckee Cheese, Sleepovers and the Perfect Jinx

August 10, 2010
By Lini Kadaba
Lady Of Leisure: Blue’s Clues, Chuckee Cheese, Sleepovers and the Perfect Jinx

For 13 years, I’ve made sure that my son’s birthday was celebrated big, spending weeks planning a theme party and fun activities for him and his friends. For his first birthday, we had the Singing Library Lady come to our house, play her guitar and sing “Wheels on the Bus,” “There Was an Old...
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He’s a Man Beyond Description: Jerry Garcia, Happy Birthday

August 1, 2010
By Hal
He’s a Man Beyond Description: Jerry Garcia, Happy Birthday

I started listening to this guy and his band in 1970. They were doing stuff that was magic to my ears, and it still is.  I never tire of it and if it is some show that I have never heard, I love finding it and hearing it.  “They’re a band beyond description,” the...
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M.

July 30, 2010
By piers marchant
M.

M. – The Criterion Blu-ray Edition  |  Director Fritz Lang  |  Score: 9.4 A luminous masterwork from Fritz Lang. The story of a child murderer let loose upon an unnamed German city is less about heroes and villains than it is an examination of the basic laws of society in the face of what...
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Life is short

July 25, 2010
By Hal
Life is short

It’s 2:06 on 202 in Flemington Heading north Life is short • A truck with marble Made in Spain Passes me Life is short • The tractor dealer’s parking lot is empty • The American Flags At the car dealerships Used to wave much larger Life is short ••• Books on Poetry at Amazon!
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Quote of the Day…

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas Edison