In which I get ready for my closeup. Last year, a few fiber loving friends, Kathy and Roze, attended one of the Social Needleworking meet-ups at my library and as they stitched they shared information about the local theater productions they are involved with. After some blatant eavesdropping, I learned that Delco has a few places where people can perform on…
Words and thoughts from Rachée
Internationally renowned jazz musician Lawrence Jones, a native Philadelphian now living abroad in the UK, will be coming back home and performing in concert, “An Afternoon of Jazz,” at New Life United Methodist Church – 2600 Bond Avenue – in Drexel Hill. Beginning at 3:30pm, the concert features Jones as well as local jazz musicians. Admission for “An Afternoon of Jazz” is $15. For more information and to…
I was “introduced” to Mary Beth Temple through her wonderful podcast, “Getting Loopy” where she talked, mostly about crochet and fiber related crafts. Through Mary Beth, I was made privy to a world where crochet wasn’t knits poor old cousin (my initial thoughts towards working with a hook), but a fantastic craft in it’s own right with many experts and…
On Black Friday there was an amazing deal on one of the deal coupon sites for a membership to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Art Museum). I scooped it up thinking that if The Bee and I visited the museum even three times we would break even. Oh my stars have I come to love my membership! In the past…
A few friends have been reading Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing and they were sharing their progress on social media. Never one to not read a book, I grabbed a copy from the library and have been enjoying the KonMar method of tidying. Yo, it’s amazing to consider the amount of things…