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Apr 1, 2024: 📷 Toy. Day 1 of the April 2024 Micro.blog Photoblogging Challenge.

Mar 5, 2024: A scene from my daughter’s dollhouse. Must have been some party.

Feb 10, 2024: The Baton Rouge Spanish Town Mardi Gras parade with E.

Aug 6, 2023: Finished reading: This is Europe by Ben Judah 📚

Jul 12, 2023: 🎵 Ambient Country Podcast Ambient Country, hosted by Bob Holmes of SUSS, explores the wide range of instrumental music including new folk, ambient, …

Jul 11, 2023: The Summer in South Louisiana has been brutally hot and humid but not rainy. E and I are trying to revive our front beds in the hopes of having pink …

Jul 2, 2023: Currently reading: This is Europe by Ben Judah 📚

May 22, 2023: The morning of the day we left for Italy was eventful. A nearby house that had been split in half was hauled away on flatbed trucks.

Jul 10, 2022: Sicily Trip: Day Nine

Jul 8, 2022: Sicily Trip: Day 7

Jul 7, 2022: Sicily Trip: Day 6 We all woke up this morning around 7:30am or so after staying up quite late. All of us were up until 10:30pm. We made arrangements for a trip to …

Jul 6, 2022: Sicily Trip: Day Five E and I on one of the balconies in our apartment, getting dressed. We have a washer and our clothes are soaked as soon as we leave the house. We dry …

Jul 5, 2022: Sicily Trip: Day Four The day began with a short (1KM) walk to the Palermo Train Station down Via Maqueda. We ended up in the same cafe we visited yesterday. E’s little …

Jul 4, 2022: Sicily Trip: Day Three

Jul 3, 2022: Sicily Trip: Day Two Nine hours. And E slept pretty well. We took out the big guns for the Ryan Air flight to Palermo. We pretty much fell apart on that flight. Five …

Jul 3, 2022: Sicily Trip: Day One The Baton Rouge Airport is kid friendly.The Baton Rouge Airport is kid friendly. E was thrilled during takeoff but was really enjoying coloring in his …

Jun 30, 2022: Sicily.

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Apr 13, 2022: Hypothes.is to WordPress For quite some time, I have admired that way that Chris Aldrich has built his WordPress website with the aim of posting all of his writing and other …

Mar 31, 2022: Want to read: No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior by Joshua Meyrowitz 📚 Via The Convivial Society: Erving …

Mar 17, 2022: Topsail Hill Preserve State Park in Florida is a beautiful place to be with your family.

Feb 2, 2022: Vik Muniz, Monica Vitti, 2014

Jan 14, 2022: Readwise and Kindle Personal Documents I finally figured out how to move highlights and annotations taken from personal documents (not items purchased in the Kindle Store) that were made on …

Nov 17, 2021: Hypothes.is, OER, and Smart Notes To get a good paper written, you only have to rewrite a good draft; to get a good draft written, you only have to turn a series of …

Nov 10, 2021: Video(less) Games, Sonification, and Accessibility Sonification is the use of non-speech sound in an intentional, systematic way to represent information (Walker & Nees, 2011). Fascinating Twenty …

Apr 29, 2021: Spring in the Subtropics I with her Magnolia leaf. I and E with Live Oaks more than two-hundred years old. I and the sugar kettle. We still have her great-grandfather's thesis …

Apr 10, 2021: Bucket Brigade E. is dedicated to his car washing practice. His sister follows his example. Whatever E. does, I. will also do.

Apr 10, 2021: Camping at Fort Pickens We drove five hours and crossed several state lines to camp at the Gulf Islands National Seashore, our favorite camping spot. We had not been away …

Mar 1, 2021: We Saw an Alligator We visited the Barataria Preserve south of New Orleans last weekend. We walked a long trail consisting of an elevated and rickety wooden platform …

Feb 16, 2021: Birthday Ice Storm We had a historic ice storm and hard freeze for days. We ran our heater and spaces heaters. We dripped our faucets. We huddled together in small rooms …

Oct 18, 2020: Fig tree care I tends E's (second) fig tree while I water it. The first one dried up over the summer. This one may not make it either.

Jul 17, 2020: We bought a pop-up camper My buddy Z- spent all afternoon and some of the evening driving to a nearby city, checking out the camper, helping me tow it, backing it in. I really …

Jul 3, 2020: #lawnfans My biggest fans.

Jun 14, 2020: ISO Banana Seat We found this beauty on the side of the road during our ride this morning. Rusty and neglected? Yes. But I see potential. And Kent Bicycles makes …

May 23, 2020: Swamp Walk This stroller has been around the world and back again. Only one-way walking allowed during Phase 1. No socializing or chance of close passage. A …

May 3, 2020: The incredible edible egg E after being brutally awoken from a car induced nap. The image is a metaphor for how I feel at least once a day since all of this began. Just a …

May 1, 2020: Just read the directions A sign in front of the Trader Joe's in our city. I went inside of a grocery store for the first time in about 45 days. I arrived with all of my Corona …

Apr 26, 2020: Breaking Corona Kosher Cars, cars, cars. Pancakes! In an unexpected twist, we had family members join us. The children played together in a feverish spasm. The adults …

Apr 23, 2020: I could get used to this I a little too close to the AC plug for my liking. We spent much of the afternoon here while I fielded work calls and emails. E and I have been …

Apr 19, 2020: Catching up after a big week E took this photo of the excavator during our afternoon bike ride today. Thanks, Nabor! What's good for the goose is good for the gander. E exploring …

Apr 15, 2020: A fine garage My old doll house my dad made for me makes a fine garage for E’s cars.

Apr 12, 2020: Happy Easter from somewhere We pass by Goodwood Park every day on our morning walk.St. Alban's produced a beautiful Easter video service. We watched it this morning together in …

Apr 6, 2020: backyard and sleep Our backyard and patio are seeing a lot of activity these days. So is this play pen I picked up for I.. E. enjoys playing in it, too. He especially …

Apr 4, 2020: Be like Bigfoot A life sized iron bigfoot silhouette at the "Bee Nice" house and music venue.

Mar 31, 2020: Lunch guest E. invited a friend for lunch. I found him quite dull, but the kids seemed to enjoy his company.

Mar 31, 2020: Lovely rolling lawns I (foreground) and E (background) enjoying a freshly mowed backyard. For a little more than 2 weeks now we've been waking up and walking out the door …

Mar 30, 2020: Cornbread We used a very simple recipe for the cornbread. But now we're out of sugar. Today was LSU's first day of classes for the main campus after the one …

Mar 29, 2020: Zoom zoom, zoomy zoom zoom Our ~40" LCD TV, my laptop, a webcam (later moved from the top of the TV to top of the furniture), and Zoom. K's oldest brother scheduled a zoom video …

Mar 28, 2020: Flower power Small flowering weeds from the park near our house in a tiny antique vase. As is our custom these days, we walked to the park close to our house at …

Mar 27, 2020: Primal screams in the park E is lord of all he surveys at the park near our house. He can clear three standard-size soccer fields in short order. Sometimes, he just needs to …

Mar 26, 2020: Lunch is served Cooking has become much simpler since we started buying everything in bulk. The remote work orders for LSU began on Tuesday, March 17th but by that …

Mar 25, 2020: Closed

Mar 25, 2020: Hello world! This is where we talk about humidity, being human, and four humans that live together. Our journey begins here, with this child's drawing of an …

Mar 26, 2019: 🎵 Sarah Pagé is an experimental harpist who has collaborated with many musicians, including a favorite of mine, the late Lhasa de Sela. But her only …

Jan 24, 2019: 🎵 Claire Hamill, Voices - Sleep (1986) I heard this song from Claire Hamill on mix from EchoOcho on mixcloud and just loved it. Composed almost …

Sep 17, 2018: In the late 1980s, I heard Ken Nordine’s Word Jazz for the first time on KRCC in Colorado Springs. I just loved those spooky, funny, surreal …

Sep 8, 2018: This is a weekend that I wish wouldn’t end.

Aug 19, 2018: 🎵 Cordes Anciennes is a beautiful album. This morning I also learned that it can soothe babies into sleep while driving through my neighborhood.

Jul 19, 2018: In 1987, I took the bus downtown, went to Budget Tapes and Records in Colorado Springs, Colorado and bought my first tape.

Jul 17, 2018: Entryway, Via Emanuele Filiberto, Rome, Italy

Jul 16, 2018: The hotter it gets, the more I love my lunchtime swim routine.

Jul 15, 2018: My family and I took a drive to Siena, Italy when we stayed in Florence in early June. I found these wonderful travertine (or marble) cubes at a shop …

Jul 14, 2018: St. Alban’s Chapel, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (stained glass detail)

Jul 12, 2018: Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione

Jul 11, 2018: Spent some of May/June in Italy with my family. I enjoyed visiting, gazing at, and sometimes drinking from fountains in Rome. On hot days the cool …

Jun 28, 2018: Giardino di Boboli

May 22, 2018: Mercy Fair, 2018. Just before he went to Rome with his mother and grandparents.

Apr 26, 2018: Thank you for this, unknown graffiti artist.

Feb 11, 2018: Enzo and I enjoying Radiohead.

Feb 9, 2018: Mama Roma!

Feb 9, 2018: The Spanish Town Parade was too rainy for our taste. But we wore our pink t-shirts anyway.

Jul 2, 2016: Skeeball at the Full Circle Bar

Jun 30, 2016: Juices and fruits

Jun 18, 2016: Untitled, Anish Kapoor, 2010

Jun 16, 2016: Jimmy Carter, Octavio Ocampo