Sundance Film Festival 2009 part 2
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The festival ended on Monday this past week. I've had enough of seeing films for awhile as well as walking to downtown. But next year I'll be back again as a volunteer.
I got to watch a bunch of films while I was working by seeing them on the li...
I got to watch a bunch of films while I was working by seeing them on the li...
Sundance Film Festival 2009, part 1
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They say that attendance is down quite a lot this year. Park City is supposed to be more like April than January right now. I don't know myself. I don't like driving up and down the mountain in the winter (ironic, of course, because it's a ski res...
Reinventing the holidays
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I decided not to travel to my hometown or any place else at Christmastime. This took such a big burden off my shoulders, I can't beleive how good it made me feel. This decision also gave me the chance to make my own new traditions. I'm not a Chris...
Another ancestor
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My mother’s father, AN, was born in Slattokra Sweden in 1900. His documents say his last residence in Sweden was the town of Ruda. In June 1923 he boarded a ship in Goteborg and sailed directly to New York City. From there he traveled, probably by...
An earth story
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I went to Maine because the phone for the camp in Vermont was busy. I had just moved to New York City and was going to begin my graduate program in the fall, in a few months. Why didn’t I stay in my old town for an extra two months earning and sav...
An Ancestor Story
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During WWI my grandma AB lived at the YWCA. She had girlfriends there and loved living at the Y. I imagine it represented independence for her. Her parents didn’t live that far away; she could have easily lived there, but she preferred the Y.
She...
She...
A Water Story
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I was in the Detroit airport and needed to do something to fill up some time while waiting for my plane, so I went for a long walk from one end of the terminal to the other. The Detroit airport has two long concourses joined in the middle by an ar...
This is what I have
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I have a storage area in the basement at my summer home. I decided that it’s time to clean it out. Compared to a lot of people, I don’t have that much stuff. I’ve moved too much and not been sentimental about keeping ordinary things. But still, I ...
Musing on going away and staying home
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Listening to the news about Burma gives me this feeling of just wanting to book a plane, go there and see what I can do to help. Lots of people did that with the tsunami a few years ago. Of course, this is totally impractical. They probably wouldn...
Mothers and daughters
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This less than 24 hour old baby could be my granddaughter. Her mother, J, is a wonderful friend of mine who happens to have a mother that is younger than I am. J and I used to be work partners, and we moved together to SLC when things went sour wh...
