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We were missing some items from the hypermarché on a Sunday night, but found one about to close called “Le Vide a Bo.” The grocer had everything we needed and I was able to successfully converse in French. But as Jenny and I left, I turned to let him know that my nickname was “Bo” [...]
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Living in Los Angeles, one doesn’t get to see really old buildings. It was a joy to learn that we would be staying in a little settlement, rebuilt from Roman ruins. As I mentioned yesterday, we vacationed in the south of France, technically, the Languedoc-Roussillon region in a little area called Suzon, which is part [...]
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I’m just back from a fabulous two and a half week vacation with my husband, his colleague, Matias, and Jenny, Matias’s wife. Jenny left young Katie with her Mom, so this was their first time alone–a kind of second honeymoon, avec Roger and Daniel.
We flew to Paris, then took the TGV to London–Daniel’s and my [...]
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At dinner the other night, two of our good friends whom we are visiting in London, Daniel and I asked “who is more British?” The two Brits listed their relatives–neither had a heritage that was mostly British. Daniel, who is Eurasian, listed Humphreys and Davies in his family tree–Welsh names. My father looked into our [...]
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One of my great joys as a boy was visiting my grandparents in Kentucky and looking through all the amazing stuff they had in their attic. The smells, the colors, things from very long ago resonate still in my memory.
As Chair of the UCLA music department, I have, over the past few years, been able [...]
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This weekend we spent the weekend with friends in Mill Valley (CA) as well as some time on a sunset boat ride around Belvedere, Tiburon, and that general [San Francisco Bay] area. Also on the boat was a Hollywood producer with whom I hit it off, who wants to introduce me to some directors looking [...]
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In that my husband is 32, all of our married (straight) friends are having babies. Jenny keeps teasing me that I’m a baby magnet as her daughter, Katie, 14 months, thinks I’m the best.
So far, most of the babies are girls. Lately there have been more boys in the mix. Last night we went to [...]
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For academics, summertime is a time of recharging: reading, doing our research, catching up on projects that we didn’t have time to do during the academic year, and traveling. I note that my blogging pattern is about once every five days of late. My year has been so busy I just haven’t had the time [...]
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Today is Mark Carlson’s birthday — Happy 57th, Mark! He is six months older than I, so Mark gets to go through the experience before I do. As I expected, the not-divisible-by-five years are less notable. We agreed that reaching 50 was monumental, and now, we both see 60 not too far away. I don’t [...]
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Vox Femina, one of the great women’s chorus in America, received a grant from the City of West Hollywood to commission a composer. They chose me!
Iris Levine brought me a stack of books by women poets who live around LA, and I chose Eloise Klein Healy. I have been in Palm Springs setting as [...]
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