Monthly Archives: July 2018

What is the Night Porter reading?

Posted on July 30, 2018 by forstegrupp

Yesterday evening after a Chopin and Beethoven concert at the Sheldonian Theatre, we walked back to Worcester College. Every college in Oxford (and Cambridge for that matter) has a single entrance for scholars, students and other folks staying at that … Continue reading →

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I was 2 inches away from drawings by DaVinci, Rapheal and Michaelangelo!

Posted on July 28, 2018 by forstegrupp

Today the science group of the Oxford Teacher Seminar went by appointment into the print room of the Ashmolean Museum.  The curator of the print room brought out 5 drawings each by first Michelangelo, then Raphael, and finally Leonardo! This … Continue reading →

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Gloucester College, Oxford garden on a Friday morning

Posted on July 27, 2018 by forstegrupp
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Oxford and Christopher Ricks

Posted on July 25, 2018 by forstegrupp

Today was my first full day participating in the Oxbridge program at Oxford. I spent the morning learning about vaccinations from Sarah Loving from the Oxford Vaccine Group. Then there was a lecture about Edward Lear by Jasmine Jagger (lots … Continue reading →

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Llewelwyn’s Castle

Posted on July 25, 2018 by forstegrupp

On our last day together of our week long train tour of Wales, SH and I walked to Dolwyddelen to see a castle which Llwelwyn the Great built to oversee and control the valley. We began our walk in a … Continue reading →

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No comments allowed by non-POC

Posted on July 12, 2018 by forstegrupp

Gabby Rivera’s book Juliet Takes a Breath is about the summer of coming out and self-discovery and intellectual risk-taking by a Puerto-Rican-American girl who has just finished her first year of college. She lands an internship with the author of … Continue reading →

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When you realize that the past is really the present at the Mason-Dixon line

Posted on July 10, 2018 by forstegrupp

Last Saturday, a beautiful warm but not hot day, we took a bike ride starting at the Herr’s potato chip factory. We were supposed to start at the parking lot of Nottingham Park but that was closed to set up … Continue reading →

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A Pair of Mitts

Posted on July 8, 2018 by forstegrupp

My family sometimes does a yarn swap for Christmas. Everyone puts in a skein of yarn in a brown bag. Then the bags are mixed up. Then you draw a name and then you take turns taking a brown bag … Continue reading →

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Atwood approved

Posted on July 8, 2018 by forstegrupp

Naomi Alderman’s novel The Power was published in 2016, and it certainly responds to the current political times in the guise of fictionalized history as modeled by Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.  The basic premise is that females of the … Continue reading →

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Mohair Weaving on an Inkle Loom

Posted on July 3, 2018 by forstegrupp

This past weekend, I went to a shop called Nantucket Looms. The first floor has lots of home furnishings and at the back of the shop is a selection of woven items such as blankets, throws, towels, scarves, and shawls. … Continue reading →

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