Posted in Neighbors on Jan 21st, 2008
Check out Pasadena resident Petrea Burchard’s new blog, Pasadena Daily Photo. The photography is terrific, and the commentary is lovely, too.
(I found this blog by way of Wired Women, a local women-focused email newsletter published by Monica Hubbard. To receive it, email monica.hubbard@charter.net.)
Posted in Neighbors on Sep 2nd, 2007
Rattling the Kettle: Memo
Posted in Neighbors on Sep 2nd, 2007
Hollywood Flakes: Now Dispensing Trite, Condescending Advice!
I can’t wait.
Posted in Neighbors on Aug 31st, 2007
Someone is organizing a Pasadena scooter riding group: Want to join our scooter gang?
And someone is offering to train anyone from “all two legged walks of life” in Samurai sword wielding: Samurai Sword Training Group
Posted in Neighbors on Jul 23rd, 2007
Our new bumper sticker
Neighbor Hugo Schwyzer knocks it out of the park again*: Girl talk, depression, and culturally conditioned rivalry. Excerpt:
“…because we inculcate in girls an absolutely impossible, unattainable ideal of physical and emotional perfection at such an early age, we set many young women up both for self-loathing and for hostility towards their female peers….[T]hose of us [...]
Posted in Neighbors on Jul 11th, 2007
Happy birthday to Aaron Proctor, who turns 26 today.
Aaron at the Pasadena bloggers’ picnic in May
Former Caltech mathematics professor John Todd died last week. His wife, Olga Taussky-Todd was the first woman professor at Caltech. Olga Taussky-Todd’s autobiography is available on the Caltech Archives website, and an oral history interview with John Todd is posted on the Center for Advanced Computing Research site.
Posted in Farmers' markets & locally grown food, Neighbors, Recipes and cooking on Jun 25th, 2007
Erin and Superspark came over on Saturday to make preserves. Superspark brought plums from her apartment complex and Costco, and we went over to the Pasadena farmers’ market for strawberries and apricots.
Sugar
Stirring
Sealing
Picture taking
Post production photo shoot
Preserves
Posted in Neighbors, Restaurants on Jun 22nd, 2007
The Foothill Cities Blog: The Proctor is Out: A Tribute
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