Friends
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Archive of posts filed under the family category.
Also Zaire
My socially conscious daughter points out in the comments to my previous post that she and her friends are not Eurocentric. They also circulated a petition demanding that the United States, “as one of the leading industrialized nations of the world,” remove the bureaucratic barriers that are preventing refugees from Zaire’s civil war from finding …
Latvia and Estonia
My socially conscious daughter and her friends yesterday evening collected 34 signatures on a petition abhorring the terrible violence now besetting the border regions between Latvia and Estonia. Their petition demanded UN peacekeeping forces and “immediate foodstuffs and monetary support to the suffering civilian populations.” The majority of people they approached signed, though some disagreed …
Hollyhock
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Cafe Riviera
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GEGL Visits New Mexico
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The Thespians
The members of Thespian Troupe 1775 of Albuquerque High School gathered Saturday evening for their annual banquet and new member initiation, and it was a long and proud affair. It is as much about the general feeling of shared accomplishment as it is about the particulars of theater. These kids put on show after show …
Frying Pan
And for my birthday, I got a new frying pan.
Closing Out a Hard Month
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The Car Show
Lissa and I went to a car show Saturday. This was an unexpected pleasure. We went because the article in the newspaper mentioned restored travel trailers, which are a hoot. It’s always been a fantasy of Lissa’s to buy a little old ’50s or early ’60s trailer and restore it. So we drove on over …