Category Archives: better world

thanks for your donations!

December 5, 2011 – 4:23 pm

Thanks to everyone who donated to our fundraiser for the Oak Park-River Forest Food Pantry. We’ve got shopping cart full of groceries from those who attended our blockbuster Moving Sale and a check for $60 from those who donated over the phone. We’ll do it again next year.

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50 things at 50

August 26, 2011 – 3:55 pm

I turned 50 today. Didn’t my daughter make me the most wonderful birthday hat ever? As is a common pattern in the blogosphere, I’d like to share in no particular order some bits of wisdom I’ve gleaned from the past 50 years. Please share yours as well in the comments section. 1. The more you [...]

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Operation Tomodachi

March 14, 2011 – 12:54 am

When people ask me where I’m from, I never know how to answer. The truth is that I grew up in Virginia and I now live in Chicago but in many ways I think of Tokyo as my hometown. I lived and worked there from the age of 21 to 29 and I am the [...]

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blue skies

August 10, 2010 – 6:25 pm

Before I tell you about Cowalunga 2010, I want to tell you lovely Craft Nectar readers how honored and humbled I am by your GENEROUS contributions to Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago for the Deep Breath quilt pattern in the last post. I wish you could have seen me sitting a my computer when [...]

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wheezy rider and the Deep Breath quilt pattern

July 29, 2010 – 9:49 pm

I’ve got a really fun quilt pattern for you at the end of this post but first a little background: Last summer I wrote about my lifelong struggles with asthma and a number of loved ones who suffer from or who have died from respiratory illnesses. On a good day, I can ride 100 miles [...]

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