Number of books read in May: 10Number of books read in 2012: 53Complete list here. ■ The Night Bookmobile (Audrey Niffenegger) Graphic novel. Related entry here.■ First Love (Ivan Turgenev) Fiction. ...
Girl Detective is hosting "The Shelf Discovery Project" beginning June 4: The Project: In the summer of 2012, we’re going to read a chapter a week from Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We N...
Well, the violin teacher was able to accommodate a morning lesson, so violin is back on... at least for the summer. And Im actually rather glad: Now both girls have second instruments, both of which ...
7The number of activities we were juggling for a couple of weeks there.Piano, guitar, violin, voice, swimming, horseback riding (twice a week!), and archery. Phew! After several references to M...
Summer swim season begins soon. The piano competition is just weeks away. It was time for a little break.So we took one.It was unplanned.Unexpected.And all the sweeter for being such.Weve read and dr...
Earlier this week, the Misses spent the morning learning about the field of marine mammal care and training by "shadowing" the trainers at Oceans of Fun. They assisted in the daily activities...
■ Sketchbooks: Turning the Pages at the Art Institute of ChicagoArtists have long used sketchbooks to jot down ideas and to work quickly outside their studios. This selection of Art Institute sketchb...
Semicolon hosts "The Saturday Review of Books." Consider participating this week.
Are You My Mother? (Alison Bechdel)Graphic memoir. Having branded Fun Home "Dont miss!" (related entry here), I wanted to read Bechdels follow-up memoir on its release. Reviews have been mixe...
From the publicist: In Leading at the Edge: Leadership Lessons from the Extraordinary Saga of Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition,, Dennis N.T. Perkins presents Shackleton as a model of outstanding lea...
First Love (Ivan Turgenev)Fiction. Robin of 52 Books 52 Weeks declared April "Read a Russian Author" month. I generally skip challenges, but two posts in my reader prompted me not to: this on...
The Night Bookmobile (Audrey Niffenegger)Graphic novel. The panel in which she describes reading as if she were eating for two made me wonder if Niffenegger were making a sly comment about why some p...
Those of you familiar with my TV Turnoff and screen-time awareness posts (begin here, if youre not) are probably interested in Screen-Free Week, which began on Monday. As Ive said before, I certainly...
Over the weekend, Girl Detective sent me the link "15 Ways to to Stay Married for 15 Years." And then this morning, I saw this. (Embedding does not seem to work for all M-mv readers, so Ive i...
Goofy. Imperfect. Fun. Real.
Books read in April: 13Books read in 2012: 43■ The Fiddler in the Subway (Gene Weingarten)Essays; journalism. I begin and set aside many worthwhile books -- books I thoroughly enjoy and/or appreciate...
Evidence suggests that Timon of Athens was never staged in Shakespeares time, which would explain the many inconsistencies in the text. In the capable hands of director Barbara Gaines, though, this r...
Choose a favorite poem and carry it with you to share with family, friends, colleagues... even strangers on the el train.From the Academy:Poems have been stowed in pockets in a variety of ways, from ...
I know you become such a coward that youll grab at any lousy excuse to get out of killing your pipe dreams. And yet, as Ive told you over and over, its exactly those damned tomorrow dreams which keep...
We celebrated Shakespeares 448th birthday a day early by attending Simon Callows one-man show Being Shakespeare, which runs through April 29. Framed by the seven ages of man speech from As You Like I...
WIRED: The NSA Is Building the Countrys Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)In the process—and for the first time since Watergate and the other scandals of the Nixon administration—the NSA has tur...
This coming weekend, the The Shakespeare Project of Chicago presents Troilus and Cressida, a "problem play" inspired by Homers Iliad. Below, associate artistic director Barbara Zahora and dra...
0The number of daily walks weve missed in the last four weeks. Good for us, and good for us!2The number of bike rides weve taken since March 10.5The number of riding lessons Mr. M-mv and I have watch...
1. Short Shakespeare! The Taming of the Shrew at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Review here.2. Flowers at the Lincoln Park Conservatory.3. Being Shakespeare, starring Simon Callow. Article of inter...
From the archives: Happy Good Friday!
Right-click on the infographic to open it in a new window, then magnify it.Related entry here.
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