Sherry | October 29, 2008
I love e-mail. I know I’ve said this before, but I really really love e-mail. Not every day offers such handy examples, but today delivered several e-blessings. Quinn dropped me a quick note from her BlackBerry just before she and her family crossed the border from El Paso, TX, into Mexico in a full-sized bus [...]
Sherry | October 28, 2008
My sister-in-law Margi and I met for conversation tonight, as we do every Tuesday while our husbands rehearse with NFC Brass. Her enthusiastic report of a weekend retreat she attended drew me in. The speakers’ topic, “The Chemistry of Life and the Image of God,” brought on lively discussion. As Margi capsulized the series, she [...]
Sherry | October 26, 2008
Mauri made some seafood chowder to add to what the others contributed to the meal for our monthly reading group meeting tonight. Rats! I forgot that we had agreed to wear hats, a concession to those who didn’t want to arrive in full Halloween costume. No worries, our hostess came through with enough hats for [...]
Sherry | October 25, 2008
For a long time now I’ve had a fascination with fish. I used to enjoy keeping a bowl of gold fish, even had a fish tank at some point along the way. But I needed to give them a pinch of food every day and clean their environment every other year or so, and the [...]
Sherry | October 23, 2008
I’ve been hearing from various sources how cool Pandora is. I finally checked it out. So while I sit here listening to some new-to-me artists singing my kind of music for me from a different tab on my web browser, I thought I’d encourage you to try it out (if I’m not the last person [...]
Sherry | October 19, 2008
Had some more fun. Our friends’ daughter got married this afternoon at NFC. The drive to the dinner reception, held at McMenamin’s Cornelius Pass Roadhouse, took about 45 minutes, all enjoyed with our friends Bob and Marcile in the backseat. The converted barn was perfectly charming and so well suited to the bride and groom, [...]
Sherry | October 18, 2008
Today we drove with friends Carol and David, Ginny and Karl into Portland to attend an official sacred harp singing convention. We got in on only one session of the weekend-long event. About a year ago I posted pictures and an audio link that illustrated sacred harp singing with us mostly novices here in our [...]
Sherry | October 16, 2008
You won’t hear a political peep out of me (I’m sick to death of the whole topic). But I have to indulge in this one photo:
Sherry | October 16, 2008
You’ve heard about Andy Warhol’s principle about 15 minutes of fame. Several seconds worth of Pete and Linsey’s, Quinn and Bailey’s fame were spent recently. Here are the Macys on NBC’s Today Show in NYC: See them there between girl number one and girl number two of the US volleyball team? And the Andersons? Could [...]
Sherry | October 11, 2008
This is not as easy as it looks. My friend Craig linked it on his blog. My grandkids couldn’t get enough of this. Their family drives one too. Josh sent this story. My man’s the only one with his name. How many of you? The financial crisis in simple terms. What do you think? A [...]