Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Jon Hendricks
Jazz Fan? Do You Remember Jon Hendricks? Two weeks ago, at the Monterey Jazz Festival, [...]
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Oct
Audiobook; Creativity; Conspiracy Theory
Sharing Our Stories My new audiobook, Sharing Our Stories; Tales of Resilience and Renewal will [...]
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Aug
Stories / Anti-Vaxers / Mystical Nonsense
Stories Are Everywhere Inside the Plane Outside the Plane Dear Anti-vaxers: Shots [...]
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Aug
The Joy of Parenthood
The Joy of Parenthood When I was in my mid-twenties, people used to tell me [...]
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Jun
Juneteenth and Voter Suppression
Juneteenth and Voter Suppression Last week President Biden signed into law a new national holiday: [...]
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Jun
The Joy of House Plants
For years we’ve known that caring for pets is good for the physical and mental [...]
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Apr
I Thought I Was the Only One
C.S. Lewis on the beginning of friendship: “What? You too? I thought I was [...]
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Mar
Saying Good-bye to 24 Years of My Life
One For The History Books From the pen of Peggy Noonan, long-time Republican apologist, comes [...]
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Jun
Prayer and the Kindness of Strangers
Nothing Fails Like Prayer I grew up around the corner from a [...]
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Sep
Well Done !!!
Katy McGlynn-Gilbert gets her AA in Psychology and Sociology. Note the Magna Cum Laude on [...]
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May
John Mott’s Haircut
Our old friend, John Mott, a retired interior designer, is living in an assisted [...]
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Feb
Katy Shot Out of the Womb
Photos Don’t Lie My daughter, Katy McGlynn-Gilbert, just finished a short paper for her political [...]
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Dec
Communication
Word Department Language changes all the time. We don’t vote on it. It [...]
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Aug
Pot or Pizza?
Pot or Pizza?* When I started college in 1957, only “dope fiends” used marijuana. By [...]
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May
Katy McGlynn Gilbert Joins National Honor Society
Phi Theta Kapa is a national honor society for junior college students.To the thrill of [...]
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Apr
Cut down on wine!
Apparently, some red wine is good for your heart. Too much wine, though, can turn [...]
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Jan
Anna Eshoo / Jim Keeffe Follow Up
From Anna Eshoo’s keynote at her 25-year celebration, “The trusting relationship between those [...]
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Nov
Catheter Girls by Jim Keeffe
Jim Keeffe was having lunch with a former SF State student, Margie Steele, one day [...]
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Nov
Frozen Peas and Chardonnay
Hard day at work. You come home to an empty house. You are on your [...]
Oct
A Beautiful Wisconsin Wedding
Mary officiated and I tagged along at the wedding of Alex Sequin and Kristen Vieth. [...]
Oct
Speling Erors.
Deer Reeder. If you half been reeding this blog for any time at all, you [...]
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Aug
VHS Cassette Tape Furniture Update
In prior blogs, you may have noted that I’ve been turning my old VHS cassette [...]
Aug