You Will Teach People to Find Peace

Pam/ May 30, 2009/ Around Ann Arbor, Art, Fun Stuff

Last night I had the good fortune to walk among fortunes embroidered on childrens gowns. Some of the fortunes were quite striking evoking strong emotions – I laughed, was sad and found one I hoped would be mine. I’m not sure I remember them verbatim but here are a few I remember: You will be attracted to cruel women You

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gsalr.com

Pam/ May 30, 2009/ Around Ann Arbor, Fun Stuff

For a few hours my friends and I drove around Ann Arbor hitting garage sales. Last night I used gsalr.com to organize our route. It’s a great site and did a pretty good job at giving directions. There were a few times where the route wasn’t exactly the most efficient, but only a few times. The site is easy to

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Fortunes

Pam/ May 22, 2009/ Around Ann Arbor, Art, Fun Stuff

Friday, May 29 Washington Street Gallery (now on Main Street) is hosting an opening of Valerie Mann’s latest art work. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Valerie a couple of times. She’s one of those people I instantly like – she’s friendly, creative, supportive, cute and funny. “Fortunes” is an installation piece of 50 vintage children’s gowns with ‘fortunes’ embroidered

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Recent Reads

Pam/ May 22, 2009/ Books

Our book discussion group got together Monday this week to discuss “Away” by Amy Bloom. The main character, Lillian, immigrates to the United States from Russia after her family is slaughtered. Lillian goes on a quite a journey in the 240 pages. It’s wonderfully written and I would highly recommend it. The group is putting together a list of titles

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County Farm Park

Pam/ May 19, 2009/ Around Ann Arbor, Random Thoughts

Yesterday I dropped my car off at Select Auto Care for an oil change. While I was waiting, I wandered across the street to the County Farm Park. It’s a nice, quiet piece of land with three walking paths, half a mile, one mile, a mile and a half. The longer path has ‘exercise stations’ along the way. Does anyone

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TED Technology

Pam/ May 14, 2009/ Fun Stuff

The TED talks are great. This short clip from TED is fabulous. See what you think! http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

Morning Walk

Pam/ May 8, 2009/ Around Ann Arbor

I pulled myself out of bed for a morning walk today. This is a nice time of year and a nice time of day – cool, quiet, with lots of flowering trees for my nose and birds for my ears. Speaking of birds, I saw what looked like an albino Robin. It was the size of a robin, the shape

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