Great way to start the day! With French Press Coffee

Fabulous day! Ordered my iPad yesterday with Zach's help :). Today will update my Livescribe Pen - oh yeh! Heading out on a walk with Moye soon. Then finish reading Annie Dillard's Teaching a Stone to Talk.

Might even check my ap scores that apparently were uploaded and available yesterday!!! Maybe. 

I have the two most handsome men in my life: Zach played groomsman to Adam Eakman's groom and David played the proud father. I am lucky!

Writing Day- Goth / Cariani cont'd

Spent yesterday as a writing day with my good friend, Lannae, who imbues me with a writing spirit. We started out on mundane outings: visit to the Broad Ripple post office to mail a box to Jake and Liz. Am sending Jake a bottle of Jack Daniels Honey Whiskey for his 26th birthday. Love that boy! Wonderful old post office with high ceilings and a musty old letter/paper smell.


Lannae carts me around in her convertible mini cooper! What fun. I have been on "house arrest" since my car is being worked on for the past week. Quite painful...no wheels. So, we coop off to Zest a lovely restaurant in a section of Broad Ripple called Monon Shops. Lannae - a vegetarian - ordered the mushroom sandwich and I ordered a lovely green apple, pecan, current, assorted greens salad with olive oil. Restful lunch. Then because Lannae brings out the larger than life part of me we stop at The Food Emporium and choose cookies to take back to her home for coffee and cookies.


We walk out into the sun room preceding to each take an end of the long, white leather couch and write. As I read through the Marie Goth: Painter of Portraits I begin to visualize the book that follows her life and note parallels with my own. We both lived fully in Nashville, IN. Here's a few parallels: havens, cabins, personality, passions, self-analysis...the list will continue as I envision the book.


I like this quote from Goth: "Art is a jealous master and will not permit you to do anything else."  Sort of shows me how her art was pivotal to her lifestyle and anchoring in Brown Co. Nicest time in Brown Co for me was the winter when none of the "tourists" clogged the narrow streets and lingered in the eateries or shops. Selfish - yes. 


I do not want to pause, halt, stop this project. AS Sharon Slazburg states in From LovingKindness, "...And when you know what you're supposed to be doing, it's somebody else's job to kill you [not you kill yourself and stop doing or creating]."

New Book: Goth and Cariani [Cari] and Me

Musing about Marie Goth and Cariani. Last summer I researched at the Historical Society. Now I am ready to approach the BC Arts Guild to let me into their archive which they seem to deny the existence of. There must be letters between Goth and Cariana somewhere. What was his life like before Marie? He seems to have been so dedicated to her art and life....his art if spectacular and full of passion...he is a very attractive man! Hm. 


Marie Goth

                                              Varaldo Cariani [Cari]

AP Reading in Louisville Going Well

Reader's Table complete with "book", headphones -radio frequency, pencils and post-its. I think the AP Lang Readers numbered about 300 per question room [3 questions...~900 readers] AP Lit Readers here as well at the same time.

Returned June 18th from the 2011 AP Lang and Comp Reading in Louisville, KY. What a great, professional experience. I have graded Q1 [2010], Q2 [2009-2007], and now Q3 [2011]. Thanks CollegeBoard for preparing me for all 3 questions. Certainly this experience impacts the strategies I pass on to my students each year. 


Lots of fun! Listened the Edwidge Dantica discuss her Haitian life as she focused on her mother at this reading...roomed with Erin in a great suite at the Galt House that overlooked the river and Belle of Louisville steamboat. Can't beat separate bedrooms with private baths, in room wi-fi and then a huge "meeting" room in the center complete with Citizen Kane dining table in the middle. We loved our accommodations!

Followings

Had the most scrumptious meringue cookies with a creamed icing filling lightly hinting of grapefruit. Mmmmm so good on a 100 degree Indiana day. Am becoming friends with Gina, French teacher, who is full of knowledge. I love meeting new people and sharing knowledge. Absorption is a gleeful event.

Here is the blog from whence this recipe came: Tartelette  If it's French it has to be good! Reminds me of the books Why French Women Don't Get Fat - a great read -  Champagne figures in the mix :) and The Sharper the Knife the Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn.

Helene Dujardin blogger

Mirelle Guiliano

Well off to walk with Moye: cool morning and heat is on the way! Mush Moye!

Parental Units - Arrrrg!

Seriously, I am 63 and my 89 year old mother looked at my nails - nice azure blue with essie- indicated after several glances at my nails and disapproving facial - mouth frowning expressions increasing with every "look" stated: "You look like a witch with that color on your nails!" Retort: [duck], Mom, you should have seen the black I had on before!!!" OMG. Now I know why my visits are seldom - not often. Sigh :(.  I do love her. She does love me. I just do NOT like to be around her sometimes.