Match Me If You Can as a book on CD read by Anna Fields was an amusing long-drive listen with a few LOL moments and only a couple of winces and eye rolls. The Chicago setting and realistic professional (and somewhat professional) women was appreciated. As in some of the Regency romance series the preponderance…
Author: Penelope Gordon
Fish Farming
The cover story of the 2015 October 26 print edition of the Christian Science Monitor overviews the growth of aquaculture, fish farming. I appreciated the focus on sustainable methods both in China and in the United States. The article skirts the issues of slave labor used to harvest seafood (for human consumption and/or fish food),…
Postcards From Aunt Pennie
Oscar de la Renta: The Retrospective 2016/05/12: de Young Museum in San Francisco, Aunt Pennie and Grandpa Marshall. Pierre Bonnard : Painting Arcadia 2016/04/06: Legion of Honor in San Francisco, Aunt Pennie and Grandpa Marshall. Pierre Bonnard was a French painter and sculptor active from 1890 to his death in 1947. He was a member…
Life With Fuzzies
Luminous Worlds at the Legion
2015/07/16 MHG and PEG visit the Legion of Honor in San Francisco to view the Luminous Worlds special exhibit.
Janet Delaney: South of Market at the de Young
2015/07/16 MHG and PEG visit to the de Young Museum in San Francisco to view the Janet Delaney: South of Market exhibit (catalogue). January 17, 2015 – July 19, 2015. From the de Young’s web site description of the catalogue: “South of Market is a photographic portrait of a San Francisco neighborhood in the throes…
Legion of Honor permanent collections
2015/07/16 MHG and PEG visit to the Legion of Honor in San Francisco to view the Impressionist gallery.
High Style at Legion of Honor
2015/07/16 MHG and PEG visit to the Legion of Honor in San Francisco to view the High Style exhibit (preview) from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection. From the Legion’s Web site: “Gowns, accessories, and other looks by the most influential designers of the last one hundred years—including Chanel, Givenchy, Dior, and Charles James—trace the evolution…
Free to a Good Home
Home Furnishings Adjustable Bed Oak Dining Chairs Set of 8 (6?) (oak dining chairs, no arms, photos to come) Dining Tables Antique rectangular-topped table with plywood leaf Antique Mirror Home Miscellaneous Water Dispenser Shopsmith Scroll Saw Odds and Ends Glass photo frames Kitchen ware Full size, grey, Rubbermaid trash can Home Office Furnishings Desk Chairs…
Adult Comics Collections
Stephan Pastis Pearls Before Swine Pearls Before Swine, copyright 2005, is interesting for Stephan Pastis’s Introduction in which he comments on influences such as Mr. Bill on Saturday Night Live and Wylie E. Coyote. Not so compelling (to me) are the subsequent strips with Pig getting injured and Bob getting burned. I found that I…