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Spring 2020 Brown Bag

Just got the brochure for spring 2020 arts events at Meadows. The Hope concert is listed but there was no Brown Bag. I called and was told that there would be no more spring Brown Bag performances. That time would … Continue reading

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Meadows School of the Arts – 50th Anniversary

SMU is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Meadows School of the Arts all year long (2019). One way to celebrate is to create a series of podcasts having someone vital in that history being interviewed by another faculty member … Continue reading

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Back to SMU – Fall 2019

  The fall 2019 Brown Bag student choreography showcase was held from October 7- 11. I was the Artistic Director for fourteen years until I retired from the Division in the spring of 2018. Myra Woodruff was the Artistic Director … Continue reading

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Zenon Ends – Minneapolis Visit

Les and I flew to Minneapolis on Thursday June 13 after having dropped of the kitties at the vet for boarding. We requested that all three have their nails cut. Before we left, they brought Ella out saying that one … Continue reading

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Academic Abstract

I have taken a stab at writing my very first academic abstract – an interesting thing to do having left academia! Lindsay Guarino and Wendy Oliver are going to put together a second volume of Jazz Dance, the Roots and … Continue reading

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TAXES!

I will start working on my 2018 taxes soon. It will be interesting. I will get a W-2 from SMU which goes from January 1, 2018 up until my retirement on July 31. I will also get forms from Transamerica, … Continue reading

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Still a Kitty Magnet

I don’t know what it is about this street and this house but we continue to attract kitties. We have been feeding Midnight. I think he is taken care of by others on Roswell Court as well. He is quite … Continue reading

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The Beat Goes On!

I made my first visit back to Meadows since retiring yesterday, October 2, 2018. I went to see the fall 2018 Brown Bag performance series. Myra Woodruff was the Artistic Director. Heather Guthrie got me a parking pass. I was … Continue reading

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READING

One of the things about retirement that I have enjoyed the most is getting back to reading. So far, I have read seven books. The latest is Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion. It is a brutal look at … Continue reading

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New York City August 16-18, 2018

Had the best time in New York. We left on Thursday morning, nothing too brutal. We stayed with Frank Davis on West 10th Street. We went to New York because I was being interviewed on Friday for a new jazz … Continue reading

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