Wow, it’s been a busy week. A LOT going on . . . 1. I had the theater experience of a lifetime. God bless the University Musical Society, for bringing the Royal Shakespeare Society to Ann Arbor, Mich. They didn’t just come and do a couple of shows, either. They were in residence for three weeks, [...]
Category Archives: Ann Arbor
The Collector
Yet another non-literary post from so-called Bookworm. I took our dog to the vet yesterday morning to have a growth removed from her front leg. It was a small, benign growth; the main reason for removing it was because it itched and because if we didn’t remove it, it could, possibly, turn into something bad. We went [...]
In today’s paper
Happy 50th wedding anniversary to my tenth grade geometry teacher. Judging from the photo he’s still got the same toupee. Apparently there’s going to be a revival of Inherit the Wind on Broadway, with Christopher Plummer as Clarence Darrow. What I wouldn’t give to see it! How f*cked up is this??? A Republican senator is trying to [...]
May I direct your attention
to a new website I just discovered? It’s called Left Behind at the Fishbowl and it’s absolutely marvelous. The Fishbowl, for those of you who aren’t familiar with the University of Michigan, is the main computing center on central campus, so-called because it’s an atrium kind of thing surrounded by glass. So this blogger goes [...]
Bookstore anecdote
Laura’s comment on my earlier post, “I was at Borders looking for something new . . . I browsed and browsed, getting more and more frustrated,” reminded me of a little anecdote. Here in Ann Arbor we are blessed with a couple of really good independent bookstores, so we’re not stuck supporting the big corporate [...]
On anonymity
Many bloggers don’t like to use their real names. Some get wonderfully creative with the descriptive nicknames they come up with for their family members. I sometimes think I should refer to Daniel as, say, Tempestuous Toddler. If I told a story about Tempestuous Toddler’s desire to bring a bowl of grapes to bed, you’d [...]
Life cycle
Last summer Lena started asking for violin lessons. My first reaction was no way! She was about to start first grade and no way was I going to add something as intense as violin lessons into the mix. I do not understand why so many music teachers expect new students to start in September. As [...]