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Email Quote of Note
On October 6th came mail from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, which included this police blotter item: "It has been reported to all [Butrovich Building] staff that a squirrel (yes, a squirrel) was reportedly seen inside a mint green Mercedes in the Butro parking lot... you left your sunroof open..."

Site Seeing
Dave is an organizer for a biweekly poetry reading at Powells Bookstore in Chicago. The concept is: "The Powells North Reading Series pairs established poets, fiction, and non-fiction writers from around the nation with two emerging writers in an event that exposes the community to a dynamic variety of work from writers at different stages in their career." The Chicago Tribune commented on a recent reading.

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November 1 is the "Day of the Dead," a Mexican holiday that celebrates the people we have lost. It is a bad name, but a joyous holiday. This year we remember our Mom, Esther Snyder [1916-2004] who died last November.

She encouraged us all to travel, and when speaking of some far away place on the planet, she often quoted her teacher, "We will all go there someday, when we have the time, the money and the inclination." We miss her.

News and Notes

• We have been going to a lot of theater recently: "Menopause, The Musical" was hilarious, "Wit" was moving and worthy of its Pulitzer Prize, and "Grapes of Wrath" was a terrific book, but a lousy play.
• Dan is busy with his dissertation research, but he took time out to attend the annual Vertebrate Paleontology Conference. He gave a talk on his research. For those of us that missed the excitement, here's one of his most important specimens, a fossil of a fish.

  

When a creature's jaw is broken into five pieces, you wonder what sort of fight it was in.

• Dave was in an Iron Poets competition to raise money for the Chicago Arts community. Iron Poets is like the Japanese cooking program, Iron Chef. In Iron Poets the teams of two players have 30 minutes to write three poems using the two secret words. Dave's were "love" and "sausage."
• We are planning to spend Thanksgiving in Libby, MT at Jim and Julie Shadle's house.

Directory of Pages

Active Pages ...
Garden Tour	Join the tour with Takashi Kawamoto, 1 long page
Shanghai	The most populous country's most populous city, 4 pages
Solid Gold ...
Antipasti	Julie & Shelley reveal their recipe, 1 page
Garden News	Moss, compost & building the garden paths, 1 page
The Gates	A quick trip to NYC to see Christo's Gates, 1 page
Haida Gwaii	Exploring Canada's Queen Charlottes Is, 4 pages
Freedom Trail	Tour of Western US in our red Jeep, 5 pages
'Round the World	The 2001/2002 sabbatical, 43 pages