Well, maybe day two depending upon how you count! But, the first whole day of presentations – and wow were they amazing! Twelve presentations were offered throughout the day – one being mine. You choose one of two in each time slot. First was the keynote speaker, Steve Taylor, a farmer, journalist and longtime public […]
Entries Tagged as 'Museums'
Country Schools — Day One
June 12th, 2017 · No Comments · Books, Children, Country Schools, Education, Important People, Museums, Shaker, Teaching & Learning
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Van Gogh sleeps…
March 9th, 2016 · No Comments · Art, Museums, Site Seeing, travel
Cross posted from Welovemuseums.com Or at least his bedroom is in Chicago… On the last Thursday of February, hubby and I stopped by the Art Institute of Chicago. I say stopped by because we were on a break between trains on our way from San Francisco to Springfield, MA via Amtrak. What a great […]
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With a camel at the San Francisco at the Asian Art Museum…….
March 2nd, 2016 · No Comments · Art, Museums, photo of the week, retirement, Site Seeing, travel
I owe so many posts to my blog! I’ve traveled quite a bit since retirement – and boy do I need to talk about retirement – and haven’t written much up. But recently, we spent a good deal of February in San Francisco with our son, and this is one of the stops we always […]
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Be a traveler, not a tourist.
December 7th, 2015 · No Comments · Art, Education, Museums, Musings, Teaching & Learning, travel
“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” G.K. Chesterton Just a couple of months ago, in September, hubby and I enjoyed an amazing trip with Odysseys Unlimited to Eastern Europe. I had wanted to post each day while on our trip, but evening tiredness, and really […]
Tags: Cold winter evenings·Freud·Kafka·quote·sculpture·think·travel
Spain and Portugal – Post #3
October 16th, 2014 · No Comments · Art, Food, Garden, Learning Spanish, Museums, Musings, photo of the week, retirement, Sabbatical trip, Site Seeing, Spain & Portugal 2014, travel
All day I say to myself, “I need to blog about this – no, about this, no about this, or what about this?” So it comes down to that I wish anyone reading this could be with me on this trip. It really is turning out to be even more delightful than I had imagined. […]
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