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Picture yourself spending some time with congenial friends, sharing your lives and pictures from your cell phones." They're curious about that cool game, song, movie, camping trip, art show, or other event that fascinated you. You talk about all kinds of stuff, poetry, styles, personal achievements, relationships, and bad days. You can share your inner child, and laugh together. They sympathetically listen to your feelings about serious topics like politics or climate change, even when they don't agree.

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Browsing carved shell jewelry by Shinji Nakaba, I came upon this ring.LOL, "Kiss the ring" has a new meaning. They show how it's made.…Continue

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Comment by booklover on January 5, 2013 at 8:37am: lol Joan :)

Comment by sk8eycat on January 5, 2013 at 3:32am: Memories:

Elaine, just doing a bit of surfing and came on this: http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2013/01/03/frozen-in-time-eight-decades-of-bay-area-ice-shows/#comments

From a friend who moved up to the Bay area about 20 years ago...I wish the writer of the article hadn't been so sneeringly snotty about ice shows, and I'd really like to see the entire collection of photos from the Chronicle's "morgue." Follies rehearsed and opened the new season show in SF for years; it was considered their "home."

Holiday did not play San Francisco, but we opened a "new" arena in Oakland from xmas 1967 through New Year's day 1968. There must be HOI publicity pics in that collection somewhere.

Most of us did stay in hotels in SF, and the company provided a bus to take us across the Bay Bridge to Oakland every night. We spent our days being tourists, including checking out Haight-Ashbury in its hippie heyday. The art galleries were fun, but the real hippies were just depressing. But I am glad I saw it all.

I would like to explain to the "journalist" who wrote this thing why so many of us were willing to work in these shows for AGVA minimum wages, stay in sleazy hotels, live out of suitcases for 10 months a year, and smile every second we were on the ice. We loved it!

Felaine

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Comment by sk8eycat on January 5, 2013 at 3:29am: Oh, owtch!

Comment by Joan Denoo on January 5, 2013 at 2:36am: It is winter in Nebraska

And the gentle breezes blow,

70 miles per hour at 32 below!

Oh, how I love Nebraska

When the snow's up to your butt;

You take a breath of winter air

And your nose is frozen shut.

Yes, the weather here is wonderful,

You may think I'm a fool.

I could never leave Nebraska,

Cause I'm frozen to the stool.

Comment by sk8eycat on January 4, 2013 at 7:43pm: Oh, thanks, everybody! I really missed you all.

I did at least one stupid thing...I forgot to take my camera, so I don't have any recent photos of Duncan, and Sue (Duncan's "mom") has a new, funny-looking pitcher ... cat-shaped, of course. I love it, and wanted to share it with all of you. The style sort of reminded me of Searle's cats....goofy. But....Sue is going to the Tucson Gem and Mineral extravaganza for a couple of days in mid-February, so.....I will take my camera!

This is a photoI took of Duncan a couple of years ago...before he put on a lot of weight...he doesn't remind me of Fred Astaire anymore:

Comment by booklover on January 4, 2013 at 7:51am: Good Morning to you too Steph, and Felaine~ really glad you're back!

Everybody have a good Friday!~ Melinda

Comment by Steph S. on January 4, 2013 at 5:50am: Good morning everyone!

Comment by Ian Mason on January 4, 2013 at 3:58am: Nice to see you back, Felaine. Nothing wrong with a little hibernation when you need it. Rest well and bounce back up.