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#ElbowsUp, humans – in more ways than one

Posted on 8 March, 20258 March, 2025 by dilovelyadmin

What an era to be living in. It’s the second time in a decade that we’re thinking, “Well, this is a moment for the history books.” (Or the Wikipedia pages.) Are there any existential threats that AREN’T buzzwords right now? It feels like all the things are on the line. No wonder #elbowsup was a…

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The Uke Heads Experience: “The album that became a community”

Posted on 16 February, 2024 by dilovelyadmin

Back in 2022, an opportunity arose that I had been awaiting for years, although I didn’t know it. My ukulele hero, James Hill, sent an invitation to his mailing list, asking us to be part of an album of songs he’d been working on. He and his friend-since-childhood Chris Parsons had a nutty idea: get…

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Dear Kids: For the record, you adore each other.

Posted on 2 December, 2016 by dilovelyadmin

Our kids are like most siblings: they play together, and they fight together. Sometimes, the screaming is pretty horrifying. And then there are those moments – and those little games and traditions they invent – that warm you right down through to the sub-cockle area of your heart. {For example, there’s this one funny procedure whenever…

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Big Magic – Two-Minute Book Review

Posted on 29 November, 2016 by dilovelyadmin

Title: Big Magic – Creative Living Beyond Fear Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Other works: Eat, Pray, Love, The Signature of All Things, etc. Recommended by: Glennon at Momastery (again). I’ll pretty much try anything she says. Also, I’d already read Eat, Pray, Love, and although it wasn’t dramatically life-changing for me, it was fascinating and memorable…

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5-Day Artist Challenge, Day 3: Visual Art

Posted on 1 September, 20161 September, 2016 by dilovelyadmin

It’s Visual Art for Day 3 of the Artist Challenge! I’m going to bend the art-as-bread metaphor a bit, and say that visual art… is a sandwich. Because it has to be. You take your deliciously blank bread/canvas/hunk of rock, add your ideas and effort, colour and texture, and make it something totally new that’s…

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Such Outrageous (Good) Fortune

Posted on 17 June, 201623 September, 2018 by dilovelyadmin

I mentioned I’ve been absent from school twice within the last two months, for a week at a time. There are only good reasons for this, and this is what I wrote (and didn’t manage to post) when I came back from the first one – a rare and wonderful reunion of my dad’s side…

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Possibly The Randomest Book You’ll Ever Read

Posted on 16 March, 2015 by dilovelyadmin

On one of E’s earlier works, Daddy helped him with a short author bio in which it was conveyed that E’s goal is to make 100 books. He is barrelling toward this goal, let me tell you. He’s kind of obsessed with my stapler. Here’s a creation from this past week. I love how he’s unencumbered by the fetters of…

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100 Happy Days – Day 29: Love Art

Posted on 29 November, 201416 December, 2014 by dilovelyadmin

E was inspired to pull up his li’l stool and draw this on our white board today. *** [subscribe2] [ad name=”Med Rec”] ***

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100 Happy Days – Day 28: THE SHOW

Posted on 28 November, 201416 December, 2014 by dilovelyadmin

  What a night. It was the kind of dance performance experience you hope for: Everything went smoothly – no obvious costume mishaps, lighting and music cues were all on, people did their jobs well. We had an almost-full theatre. Our guest performers were all amazing. We got great feedback from our audience (even some of…

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100 Happy Days – Day 27: Gettin’ Stuff Organized

Posted on 27 November, 201416 December, 2014 by dilovelyadmin

The day before the show!!! I have been in this many dance pieces (5) – or even more – in other shows, but never with quite so much in the way of complex costumes. It feels great to have everything ready to go. *** [subscribe2] [ad name=”Med Rec”] ***

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