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Had a jam packed week at the International Music Festival in Victoriaville Quebec (somehow in French the acronym comes out to FIMAV). My favorites this year were a group of female Mongolian throat singers working with two German accompanists and Colin Stetson who appeared three separate times the most impressive being leading a group performing […]

Trying the fancy Post ahead feature – hope it works! I’m actually up in Canada at the moment at a music festival. If everything works as planned this posted on Friday at 5:00pm. I managed to get my head and my bobbin assembly both on straight this week (bobbin assembly thanks to Paul’s help-he speaks […]

Both my sewing machine and my brain are currently seized up – my brain with a migraine and my sewing machine because I insisted on trying to use it while medicated with a migraine.  See you next week.

Not a new punk band, rather a description of my week. Started the week out at my mother-in-laws in Connecticut to attend the funeral of my husband’s aunt Gloria Outwater (Schrader). In addition to the strong women in my birth family I’ve had the pleasure of knowing a number of other strong (and strong-willed) women, […]