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September 7 Writer Birthdays

1434 – Janus Pannonius, Croatian-Hungarian poet, writer, diplomat, judge, and Catholic priest who is considered the most significant Renaissance poet in Hungary. 1707 – George-Louis Leclerc (Comte de Buffon), influential and prolific French natural-history writer, naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedia writer; of his 36-volume Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, it has been said, “Written inContinue reading “September 7 Writer Birthdays”

Junior Year Begins

Tonight, I keep waiting for my son to walk in and want to change the channel on the television, or pull out his partially completed Lego model and finish building it. But those things are not going to happen. Today, we helped him move into his dorm room at school. He officially begins his juniorContinue reading “Junior Year Begins”

Meme Monday: Queen’s Gambit

Throwback Thursday: Family Unit

I recently discovered a box of old family photos I hadn’t been able to locate since we moved three years ago. This is one of the images that was in it. The photo shows my father with his parents and brother. My best guess is that this was taken in 1945, shortly after my grandfatherContinue reading “Throwback Thursday: Family Unit”

Wordless Wednesday: Street Piano 2

Happy National Donut Day!

Hitting the Road

May 27 is National Road Trip Day! I did not know there was such a thing as National Road Trip Day. I will not celebrate by going on a road trip today, but I may work a bit on planning one. We are hoping to take a cross-country road trip this summer to visit familyContinue reading “Hitting the Road”

Throwback Thursday: The Pantheon

Sophomore Year: That’s a Wrap

On Thursday, he took his final exam. Then we packed up some of the stuff in his dorm room and moved it to a storage unit we rented near campus. It was that, or rent a van this week and again in August, who cart his dorm stuff back and forth — and find aContinue reading “Sophomore Year: That’s a Wrap”

The End of a Mall

I was not there to see it, but Landmark Mall met the wrecking ball today. I remember the OLD Landmark mall, the one that was an outdoor mall, decades before “town center” malls were a thing. It was the usual stopping point for a meal on school field trips heading in and out of DC.Continue reading “The End of a Mall”