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Tag: Kalamazoo

September 26, 2014 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Properly vicious

There comes a time when I have so much news for a Fusenews that it paralyzes me and rather than write one up I just let my files accrue more and more schtoof until the vicious circle ends with a massive deletion.  Today some of this stuff will strike you as a bit out of […]

June 21, 2014 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: Private jet, please

First up, my little sister.  My daughter recently had her third birthday so my sis came up with a craft involving what she calls Do It Yourself Cupcakes. Each cupcake sported a teeny tiny cover of one of my child’s favorite books.  Then we took them to her daycare where she delightedly set about pointing […]

February 8, 2011 by Betsy Bird

I now invoke The Michigan Mafia

The other day I was reading an excellent 100 Scope Notes posting on A Quintet of Blogs to Watch.  Some I’d seen before (go, The Scop, go!) and some I had not.  For example, Travis mentions a highly amusing blog called Klickitat, which is as fun to say as it is to read.  But Travis […]

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July 14, 2010 by Betsy Bird

Well, folks, wish me luck. Today I give my presentation to the good people of Hamline University, and we’ll see whether or not they find my talk too short, too long, or too nerve-wracked (the smart money’s riding on the last). The weather, as it happens, is perfectly perfect here. I am, however, a little […]

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