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Music from many places

Posted on February 16, 2019 by

17 February 2012 @ 09:31 pm Richard Thompson Valentine’s day in New York City at the City Winery. Richard Thompson doing an all-request show. Bliss. The City Winery is a wonderful venue, tightly packed to be sure, but good food … Continue reading →

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Reading, How to

Posted on April 24, 2018 by

After food, and sex, and occasionally, sleep, the deepest and most sustaining pleasure of my life has been reading, reading stories. For the past few years, since chemotherapy and radiation treatment for Stage 3 endometrial cancer, I have read very … Continue reading →

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Hair story the last, probably

Posted on July 19, 2017 by

Since I was 14 years old, I had long hair, often nearly to my waist. I loved it. I was vain about it. It was lush and wavy and deep chestnut brown. I thought it was my best feature. In … Continue reading →

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a joy from Twitter

Posted on April 14, 2017 by

“One of the great joys of being a librarian is that it is one of the last refuges of the renaissance person…” #NLW17 @GirasoleAzzurra pic.twitter.com/fVZ0kaOc6V — ProQuest (@ProQuest) April 14, 2017 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

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Georgia O’Keeffe

Posted on April 10, 2017 by

07 September 2013 @ 10:42 am Georgia O’Keeffe We took two days to go upstate, to see a collection of 32 paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe in a small museum in Glens Falls, NY. The family of Alfred Steiglitz, whom O’Keeffe … Continue reading →

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The words are moving

Posted on April 5, 2017 by

I will be moving much of the commentary and musings I wrote in Live Journal to this site. Thank you for following along.

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Biography

Posted on February 21, 2016 by

GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido GraceAnne A. DeCandido is a writer, reviewer, and editor, now mostly retired. She taught children’s and young adult literature classes for Rutgers SC&I online for over a decade, as well as two specialized classes Female Voices in … Continue reading →

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What I thought and what I wrote

Posted on December 17, 2015 by

I have brought together speeches and essays and musings, to this place on the web, so I could keep it together, and so it is. Personal stuff is mostly on Facebook, and on LiveJournal, where I write as Girasole. Blessings … Continue reading →

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Just an April note

Posted on April 16, 2015 by

I am still here. The words remain. Did not want you to think I wasn’t. There is some personal stuff at http://girasole.livejournal.com/ if you want to read that.

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2014 in review

Posted on December 30, 2014 by

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it … Continue reading →

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