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My Own Stories
Lou Nell Gerard
January 24, 2014
I can’t imagine life without a soundtrack. Be it our own internal DJ running playlists in our head, or our earbuds emitting favorite tracks to accompany our runs, a radio station in the car, AirPlay throughout our house condo apartment…
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Lou Nell Gerard
January 17, 2014
So I admit I have a generally negative reaction to most movie remakes, yet I never tire of going to Oregon Shakespeare Festival or out to the ACT Theater here in Seattle and seeing another Lear, Othello or A Midsummer…
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Lou Nell Gerard
December 28, 2013
(OK, I exaggerate, but I can’t help myself…) When Klee and I took the MSF course they were teaching SIPDE: Scan, Identify, Predict, Decide, Execute; and look where you want to go. Both of these not only improved my riding…
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Lou Nell Gerard
December 19, 2013
What’s the connection? Smaug in The Desolation of Smaug put me in mind of Ray Harryhausen, master of special effects who died earlier this year. Apparently the thirteen year old Harryhausen saw the 1933 King Kong, with stop-motion animation courtesy…
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Lou Nell Gerard
December 18, 2013
There is something about Peter Jackson’s vision of Tolkien’s world that works really well for me. I think we all develop strong visuals of the books we read, especially such richly penned works like The Hobbit and The Lord of…
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Lou Nell Gerard
December 14, 2013
Être et avoir, (To Be and to Have), 2002, directed by Nicolas Philibert. French with English subtitles. This award-winning documentary captures a year at a rural one-room school in France with a dozen students ranging in age from 4 to…
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Lou Nell Gerard
September 5, 2013
We were in Cabo San Lucas many years ago and had taken a water taxi to Land’s End. We were to jump off the bow into the surf and walk ashore. Our companions and Klee had all gotten off unaware…
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Lou Nell Gerard
May 17, 2013
So, mom was a photo journalism major. She used words and used them well though, like many other mothers of the late 1940s and 1950s she elected motherhood and community service over career…it seemed more of an either/or matter in…
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Lou Nell Gerard
May 11, 2013
So I hate to think of this person as a neighbor. It is much more pleasant to be surprised when you are expecting worse and get better. But here is the sad truth about a neighbor, a pizza and a…
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Lou Nell Gerard
May 9, 2013
There is a line from Frightened Rabbit’s Swim Until You Can’t See Land “the water is taller than me” and that is exactly how I viewed deep water, as not simply taller than me, but in being so, was also…
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