I am a Jew who loves Christmas music. All year round, my internal tape has carols playing. Since 1991, I have collected CDs of unusual Christmas music. I try to buy something new each year, and I have accumulated quite a collection of those outdated compact discs. My collection ranges from medieval and Renaissance music, …
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Weekly Photo Challenge : Transition..Building..to Ruin..to Building
In the town of Bury St. Edmunds in England, the Abbey buildings have been crumbling for centuries. From the original stone buildings, ruins. Local residents pulled stones from the monastery ruins. To build new dwellings. Modern residence, built right into the ruins of the 11th Century Abbey. How did the monastery become a ruin? From …
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Properly Grateful…Joy of Giving
I like to think that I count my blessings every day, not just on Thanksgiving Day. This year, I've had numerous occasions to reflect on the manifest blessings in my life, and my country. I was fortunate to be born in the United States of America, which has, since its founding in the 18th Century, …
Photo Essay: University of Cambridge, Summer 1991
I admit it. I am a total Anglophile. I'm a sucker for a British accent, and since a trip around Britain in 1984, I fell in love with the city of Cambridge. In the summer of 1991, I was fortunate enough to attend a three-week program put on by UCLA in Cambridge. Attendees could take …
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Some Thoughts on Paris, Friday the Thirteenth
The massacre of over a hundred innocent French and other citizens was horrific, and expected. The enemy of Western Civilization has been invited in their thousands to Western Europe for decades. Islam, and Islamists will forever be the enemy of Western Civilization, until they are rooted out and destroyed. Chance of that happening any time …
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Ornate
This is the sanctuary at St. Joseph's Polish Catholic Church in Camden, New Jersey, during their 120th Anniversary celebration in 2012. The priest is Polish, and there is a Polish-language Mass daily. My husband grew up not far from here, and went to this church, and graduated from the parochial high school here (now defunct). …
A Trip To Reno-Lake Tahoe
The week after Labor Day, Hubby and I flew to Reno for a meetup with our friends from Ricochet. Getting there and back wasn't half the fun, but it was interesting. Since we waited until the figurative "last minute" to book our flights from Seattle, we had to change planes both ways. For three legs …
September 11, A Day of Infamy
On September 11, 2001, the most horrible act of Islamic Terrorism was perpetrated against our country. A well-rehearsed team of Islamist Fanatics commandeered commercial jetliners full of innocent civilians, and deliberately flew them into the two towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, in the city of New York, the Pentagon in Washington, …
Medieval Music…Long Form Writing
In the summer of 1991, I went to Cambridge, England for a UCLA Summer Program. We lived for three weeks in Trinity Hall College (founded in the 14th Century to train canon lawyers), Trinity Hall, Cambridgeand were able to take one of four different courses, taught by dons of the various colleges. I took a …
Reading the Outlander Series-And Learning! Updated-See Italics Below
For the past few months, I have been reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series of novels, about a nurse after World War II, who falls through standing stones in Scotland, and lands 200 years in the past. Her adventures are totally engrossing, and I have been literally losing sleep, as I hate to close the book, …
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