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Snow day or delay?

Posted on February 10, 2019 by forstegrupp

Here is a rendering of what the street looks like out of our window. We only have a light dusting but if this continues all night….

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A book uniting two passions: fairy tales and knitting

Posted on January 30, 2019 by forstegrupp

Yesterday on the new non-fiction shelf of our local public library, I found a book with a pebbled blue cover and gold gilded lettering and design. It was clearly a knitting book as you can see from the front cover … Continue reading →

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Women are allowed to want.

Posted on January 18, 2019 by forstegrupp

Recently I just finished the third book in Katherine Arden’s Winternight trilogy about a woman in medieval Russia who takes on the responsibility of trying to save her people of Rus from human depredations and supernatural threats and negotiate a … Continue reading →

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Annotations Galore!

Posted on January 14, 2019 by forstegrupp

Once upon a time, I took so many notes and underlined so much in my textbooks that when I got done, the books looked like a very neat second-grader had been let loose with colored pencils. My old college edition … Continue reading →

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Wearing Someone Else’s Cap or Bags (hat or pants) — a personality test in E.M. Forster’s novel A Room with a View

Posted on December 12, 2018 by forstegrupp

This is my third or fourth time teaching E.M. Forster’s enlightened novel A Room with a View, which chronicles how Lucy Honeychurch fights the armies of darkness (self-abnegation and sterility) to win her true love, George Emerson. But first she … Continue reading →

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Poppy Seed Rolls

Posted on November 25, 2018 by forstegrupp

Every holiday my family (SH and the three children) eagerly wait for the poppy seed rolls to come out of the oven. I have to swat hands away so some rolls remain for the next day’s Thanksgiving or Christmas feast. … Continue reading →

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Who belongs? Who is out?

Posted on October 25, 2018 by forstegrupp

These signs have been popping up in my neighborhood. I see them every day when I walk the dogs. I took this picture. It is a little blurry but I did not want to walk onto their lawn to take … Continue reading →

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Stay Focused, Democrats

Posted on October 7, 2018 by forstegrupp

This past week has been absolutely dreadful. The week before when Dr. Blasey Ford testified was not too spiffy either. Senators Lisa Murkowki of Alaska and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota voted their conscience against the tempermentally, morally and ethically … Continue reading →

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The Girl in the Tower

Posted on September 20, 2018 by forstegrupp

Last week I finished the second book in Katherine Arden’s series about Vasilisa and her quest for freedom from medieval Russian norms for girls. The second book picks up exactly where the first book ends. But for those wanting to … Continue reading →

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A picture narrative of my birthday — and what I love and live

Posted on September 20, 2018 by forstegrupp

Triangle cake from Art Deco cake pan from 1920s

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