tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58721022024-03-13T22:18:31.717-04:00Genre CookshopHi. I'm a painter, a writer and a mother of three teenage sons, one with a severe disability. This is a journal: riotously disorganized, full of art, food, children and everyday domestic events. Unless you are a friend or family member you may not be interested, but you are welcome to look. Artists who are parents may find some
common ground here, as well as parents of children with special needs. For art only, see my site: nancybeamiller.blogspot.comNancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.comBlogger1312125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-50808598147625332302014-07-16T22:34:00.000-04:002014-07-16T22:34:55.660-04:00Mail Order Glasses Guys<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-22355968224419882542014-05-30T22:01:00.000-04:002014-05-30T22:29:29.142-04:00Graduation Exhibition!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The <a href="http://www.pafa.edu/ase/">Annual Student Exhibition</a> (ASE) of the <a href="http://www.pafa.org/">Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts</a> (PAFA) has only two more days to run! Last day to see it is this Sunday June 1, 2014. For those who can't make it, here is what I have hanging in the show:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Presence" oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Young Man" and "Young Woman" oil on canvas 48 x 30 inches each</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Cheer" digital image 52 x 36 inches</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Signifier" oil on canvas 36 x 24 inches</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Veiling" digital image 18 x 22 inches</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Head Dress" digital image 14 x 20</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Angel Caul" digital image 14 x 20</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Emerging" digital image 14 x 20</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Laptop" digital image 14 x 20</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Push" digital image 12 x 14</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Stamp" digital image 12 x 14 inches</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Witchy Anne" digital image 20 x 14 </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Henry King" digital image 20 x 16</td></tr>
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You can see a gallery showing a few pieces by every artist in the show by <a href="http://www.pafa.edu/View-All-Work/ASE-Gallery/1463/">clicking here</a>. If you wish to make a purchase, you can call the museum at: 215-972-7600</div>
Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-32228688253499330682014-05-28T23:28:00.001-04:002014-05-28T23:50:18.242-04:00MFA Graduation!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On May 9, 2014, I graduated from <a href="http://www.pafa.org/">the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts</a> with a Master of Fine Arts degree. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earlier that day I attended the awards ceremony where I was honored, delighted, and deeply touched to receive the <b>MFA Faculty Award.</b> The prize description reads:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The MFA Faculty Award is to be
presented yearly to the student who, in the estimation of the MFA Faculty, has
made a major contribution to the graduating class on the basis of the
exceptionally high quality of his/ her work throughout the graduate career and
who has exerted a positive influence over his/ her fellow students. First
awarded in 2002.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A week earlier, when it was announced I was this year's recipient, I was completely taken by surprise, almost floored. I had to brush away some sneaky ninja tears and take a few deep breaths. There were so many highly qualified students to choose from that I never even gave the possibility a thought! I am truly honored, and grateful for this encouraging vote of confidence from my faculty, whom I hold in the highest regard. I need to live up to it, going forward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, May 9th was also my birthday. When I got up to make a speech at some point in the graduation ceremonies, the Dean of the school, Jeff Carr, stopped me before I reached the podium and led everyone present in a rousing chorus of "Happy Birthday!" What a moment. I was intensely embarrassed but it was also pretty cool to have hundreds of people singing Happy Birthday to me...can't image anything like that will ever happen again! Bizarrely cool thing to happen. Thank you Jeff Carr! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love this quick shot taken by my mother-in-law showing me, PAFA president David Brigham, Commencement Speaker Jane Golden (oh my god she was such a <i>great </i>speaker!) and PAFA Painting Department Chair Al Gury, right after the ceremony ended. It kind of makes up for the fact that I don't have a photo of my receiving the diploma or posed afterwards with my diploma. Not only was the official PAFA commencement photographer shooting at a weird angle (up and from the side?) but in addition he caught a transition movement in my face where it looks like I am wincing, eyes closed and mouth a grimacing rictus. On my way to or from a happy smile but not there. So, no, not going use that one! And my family and I didn't think to take the usual post graduation diploma and big grin shot though, I guess, though I do remember some photos being taken somewhere by someone....but NBD!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I in fact took lots of shots of the day, and night, recording the event through my own eyes (yay camera phones!) and I posted the best of them to Facebook. If you want to see happy people and acres of art just go to this link: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10203543328921337.1073741868.1158066233&type=1&l=8ecfb41c7b">https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10203543328921337.1073741868.1158066233&type=1&l=8ecfb41c7b</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, now I am a Master of Fine Arts. I wish my Mom had lived to see it. She had the only other Master's Degree in our immediate family and she would have been so proud of me, following in her academic footsteps. Many thanks and love to all who helped me achieve this! And I promise to use my powers only for good. ;-)</span><br />
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Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-83325369791024107132014-05-25T22:19:00.000-04:002014-05-25T22:20:28.133-04:00Beatrice Carlson Miller 1927-2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, it's been one month since my mother died. She'd been sick for a long time but still at the end, we were all surprised how it went faster than expected. She was on her own path, clearly.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She had very loving carers. This was the day before she died.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was an unusual and wonderful woman, intelligent, compassionate, appreciative and incredibly modest despite being hugely talented in many areas. She was a wonderful mother, a fond aunt and truly devoted wife. We were all of us so blessed, so lucky, to have her in our lives for as long as we did, but I greedily wish we could have had more time together. Maybe that's always how it goes. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">♡</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">♡</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">♡ </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mom's obituary can </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be read here: </span><a href="http://www.tributes.com/show/101315092" style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">http://www.tributes.com/show/101315092</a><br />
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Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-39442287454592145072014-04-12T21:42:00.001-04:002014-04-12T22:34:07.916-04:00Visiting my Parents<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Paul and I drove up to CT to see my parents today. Mom was put on <a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hospicecare.html">hospice care</a> about two months ago, but I naively hoped that this might have been more about changing her type of care rather than a real harbinger of what was coming. That did seem to be the case at first, but she has been declining suddenly just lately. I spoke with hospice people twice this past week, and a little with Mom herself, and decided I could not wait till next month for my next visit. I'm in the last few weeks of a graduate degree program, and we were/are planning to celebrate with my parents on Mother's Day in May, two days after I graduate. Was/am hoping to show Mom my diploma and tell her I am grateful to be following in her footsteps. (Always a hard worker, she got a Master's from Columbia when she was a brand-new mother!)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mom was asleep and slept heavily throughout our entire visit. Dad was being very brave.</td></tr>
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This is a natural phase in existence, but it is incredibly painful. Driving home we were listening to a talk by Edward Hirsch and he quoted this beautiful poem:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292f33; font-weight: 300; line-height: 34px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Life flows to death as rivers to the sea /</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292f33; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: 300; line-height: 34px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And life is fresh and death is salt to me. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292f33; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 300; line-height: 34px; white-space: pre-wrap;">(J.V. Cunningham)</span><br />
Of course, everyone is hoping she will pull up out of this recent nose-dive, and she could! She's always been so strong. Keep the river flowing Mom... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; font-size: 13px;">♡<span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Heiti SC Light';">☼</span>♡</span><br />
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Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-82798142993608692522014-04-10T21:47:00.000-04:002014-04-10T21:48:44.559-04:00Dawn Brushes Rose<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #292929; font-family: proxnov-reg, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;">Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?</span></div>
Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-36538657569303617012014-04-09T19:56:00.002-04:002014-04-09T20:16:14.487-04:00Poetry Poke <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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with unkempt hair
~ parody of <a href="http://thegreenleaf.co.uk/hp/women/c/chiyo/00haiku.htm">Chiyo-ni</a>
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April is National Poetry Month here in the U.S. I majored in English at University, with a concentration in poetry but I somehow missed out on studying any asian poetry traditions at all! I later discovered various traditions on my own. Fukuda Chiyo-ni (<a href="http://earlywomenmasters.net/chiyo/index.html">Kaga no Chiya</a>, 1703-1775) was a buddhist nun, a calligrapher and a painter in addition to being one of the foremost haiku masters of the Edo period in Japan. The poem of hers that I respectfully parodied is this:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; white-space: nowrap;">again the women<br />come to the fields<br />with unkempt hair</span><br />
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Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-9192658947345649972014-04-07T20:22:00.001-04:002014-04-07T20:22:22.030-04:00Book Contract!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yesterday we had a momentous evening! <a href="http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/author/paul-downs/">Paul</a> signed the contract for his book, working titled "The Boss Life" which will be published by <a href="http://www.us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/publishers/adult/blueriderpress.html">Blue Rider Press</a> (an imprint of Penguin Books) in Fall 2015. I'm so proud of him!</div>
Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-6841664255067933622014-02-27T13:52:00.000-05:002014-11-01T13:53:55.548-04:00Henry as Muse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Henry (and his brothers) have long been my primary muses. Peter and Henry attended their first gallery openings (a solo exhibition of mine at Germantown Academy) on their ONE MONTH BIRTHDAY! So they are all patient and experienced with their mother's need to draw paint and photograph them. PAFA held its open studio session in February this year and Henry came along to see himself hanging up on the wall. He seemed to calmly approve! ;-)<br />
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The drawing of Henry has attracted a lot of attention. My friend Susan Michini who is a very fine photographer later took this photo of me with the Henry drawing which I'm including because I am in awe of her skills! </div>
Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-37511277041146403092014-01-15T19:49:00.000-05:002014-01-15T19:49:10.498-05:00King Cake...Ka-ching!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I got the coin in the King Cake! Along with the possibility of heavy metal poisoning (note the pretty green oxidizing surrounding the coin) I guess it signifies wealth a-comin' at me in the new year! I'm just grateful I did not break a tooth...total score! Except, it's a Euro. So I can't actually spend it, dang! Is this some kind of sneaky zen koan?<br />
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Here is the cake before it was cut up, a real beauty made by my friend Helen. And it was delicious too (once the coin-y and bean-y bits were excised!) King Cakes often have pastel colored icing or bright sugar toppings, but Helen is an artist as well as a natural foods enthusiast so she went her own way with this, to great effect. Here's a recipe for anyone interested:<a href="http://southernfood.about.com/od/cajuncuisine/r/bl80104b.htm"> http://southernfood.about.com/od/cajuncuisine/r/bl80104b.htm</a></div>
Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-9998763814538793712014-01-02T18:23:00.002-05:002014-01-02T18:23:28.098-05:00Twin Hug Slap Laugh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The twins having a happy moment recently:<br />
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Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-70217835433561741432013-12-24T15:47:00.000-05:002014-01-02T10:59:43.592-05:00Xmas Eve Amox!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ho Ho Ho! Here's a little Xmas eve present for me, a nice bottle of antibiotics! I've been more or less ill since the evening of Dec 13th....I thought it was just a virulent cold and that I was getting slowly better but this morning I either had a relapse or started afresh on illness number two (which appears identical to illness number one.) My physician didn't even bother to see me again: when I called the office to see if I could come in (again) the receptionist wouldn't make me an appointment, she just took a message and an hour later called to say the doctor had phoned in a prescription (unspecified) to the drugstore. <i>Phoned it in </i>about sums it up. I guess it's xmas eve and nobody really wants to be working, but this is not confidence-inspiring. Not sure why if it's "just a virus" as the doctor decreed at last week's office visit, that I'd suddenly need an antibiotic? Without another check-up or even a phone consult? Ho Ho Ho! #feelingrumpyandlousyandUNCONFIDENTinmyhealthcareprovider<br />
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<i>Follow Up:</i> The antibiotics worked like a charm. So, I guess my doctor knew what she was doing after all! ;-)<br />
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Everybody is home for a little while anyway. There's something about having all three fledglings back in the nest again however briefly...says Mama Bird with a contented little chirp! That really is all I wanted for Christmas. ~♡♫♡♡~</div>
Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-41922367433058520732013-12-22T21:39:00.001-05:002013-12-22T21:41:37.973-05:00End of Semester!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The semester ended a week ago with my showing both paintings and also my newest project, a series of photos playfully exploring personality and identity. Its working title is Re/Present. So far I have done 27 sessions, all but one with just one person at a time, friends, family and fellow graduate students whom I think of as my collaborators. I've made a blog of selected images over at Tumblr but a) I am waiting to get the okay from all my collaborators before going public and b) I am having some trouble with the Tumblr interface: I find it much more difficult to configure and control than Blogspot. ;-( So I may in fact scrap it and start all over again on Blogspot...but I'll keep you all posted either way.<br />
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It was a rough week leading up to the final review on Friday, with an art opening, several snow days, weather cancellations, and sudden family health emergencies in CT necessitating a lot of extra confabulating with siblings and parents and almost as soon as Friday's effort was over I immediately became sick. After the last review on that last day I had my coat on and was standing at the school entrance with a bunch of fellow students getting ready to go out and have a celebratory drink. I suddenly felt wham! an enormous clout of shaky exhaustion. I made an excuse and went straight home and was sick for this past entire week! A terrible bad cold, I guess but more like a mini-flu, fever, congestion, sore throat, aches, etc. worse than any cold I've ever had. Anyway, just starting to feel the recovery has started as of today, one week and one day later! Oh well...onwards and upwards!<br />
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Henry came home from his boarding school the previous Saturday for a full week of Thanksgiving vacation. We started his break off by going to the Astrid Bowlby exhibition and Gallery Talk at Gallery Joe last Saturday night:<br />
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Henry attended his first art opening on his ONE MONTH birthday, and it has just gone on from there, so it's an atmosphere he is comfortable with and also seems to naturally enjoy, at least for short periods of time.<br />
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The next day we visited my studio at PAFA:<br />
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and we also visited the PAFA vending machines...very much appreciated in every way.<br />
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These big boxes that light up, and hum, and show you lots of snacks and then you GET one of the snacks and you can eat it! It is like the most perfect kind of art really, when you think about it...<br />
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Henry is a catalyst for re-examining preconceived notions of the world, that's for sure. We took in a few more shows:<br />
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And he was as good as gold in the other galleries as well. Another nice thing is that most museum/gallery goers seem to be generally sophisticated/broadminded and savvy people, we rarely get more than a brief glance and a friendly smile when Henry flaps his hands (stims) with excitement, or gives the occasional happy little skip (which can be a surprising move enacted by a six foot five inch young man.) I guess it is pretty well understood that art-loving comes in all shapes and forms...<br />
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Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-85092609008737541922013-11-27T21:23:00.000-05:002013-11-30T21:24:30.544-05:00Thankful!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span id="goog_1997425825"></span><span id="goog_1997425826"></span>Feeling thankful for friends who rallied to my cry for companionship on a long day of solo Henry-tending! First, Home Depot with Sarah Barr:<br />
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Next, we visited a lumber yard with Alex Tyng:<br />
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All full of gratitude for friends and ready for Thanksgiving!</div>
Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-46738199603377133812013-11-01T14:57:00.000-04:002013-11-01T15:02:10.883-04:00Personal Best<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I love the sport of Cross Country Running (more commonly referred to as X-C.) It's like life, both solitary and communal. You're a member of a team but you are also running your own race. I'm so happy two of my boys have gotten into it. Our area's District Championships were held last Friday and son H did a wonderful job, finishing high overall but more importantly, achieving his own personal best! We are all really proud of H's hard work, talent and dedication!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Proud Dad congratulating H!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coach was pleased with H's performance!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was a great day! Congratulations H!</td></tr>
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Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-61013372211368740852013-10-20T11:22:00.001-04:002013-10-20T11:23:13.579-04:00PAFA tries out POST (Philadelphia Open Studio Tours)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
PAFA decided to try participating in POST (Philadelphia Open Studio Tours) this year. It was decided only the graduate degree students would participate this time, maybe we are the guinea pigs? I wouldn't say the traffic was heavy but there were a lot of interested strangers poking their heads in, and a few good friends came to hang out and make it more fun!<br />
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Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-51179670677589063762013-10-18T20:10:00.003-04:002013-10-18T21:10:44.972-04:00Cupcake Day!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Today was Cupcake Day for students at the <a href="http://www.pafa.edu/">Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts</a>! Rainbow-tinted fun. Here is<b> Cupcake Day: The Photoessay</b>:<br />
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Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-12799234537508930782013-08-29T18:52:00.001-04:002013-08-29T19:41:22.353-04:00I'M BAAAACK!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
...in Graduate school, that is. After taking a year off mid-program due to complications following surgery for an injury.<br />
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I wasn't really sure how I would feel upon "re-entry" but the moment I walked into my beautifully minimalist light-filled studio I was filled with joy! Interestingly, I've been looking into the early works of painter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Beckmann">Max Beckmann</a> and I've been mesmerized by <a href="http://www.wikipaintings.org/es/max-beckmann/self-portrait-in-florence-1907">this particular image</a>:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Max Beckmann "Self-Portrait in Florence" 1907 <br />
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Okay okay, so my studio looks out onto Philadelphia's Convention Center rather than beautiful tuscan hills, and I'm lacking a smartly tailored formal outfit, and I don't smoke, and I'm not a stunningly handsome twenty-four year old German man at the turn of the last century, but other than THAT, it's like these pictures are twins, right? ;-)</div>
Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-70086093939607543322013-07-27T13:08:00.000-04:002013-07-27T13:08:11.005-04:00Peach Season<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Peach season is just starting here in the mid-atlantic, and oh how I love it! There's nothing like a good perfectly ripe peach, with it's velvety skin, tender flesh and sweet-tangy juice. But I am a bit of a peach-fusspot, I will only eat a peach when it is perfectly <i>perfectly</i> ripe. My husband and sons laugh at this, they don't mind chawing at a rubbery unripe lump, or slurping up a peach with deteriorating flesh-quality. Their random grabs at the fruit basket leave me frustrated, as I may be waiting with eagerness for a peach to get to the perfect pitch and before it is quite there, maybe it is even close, wham...they've gone ahead and eaten it. Or they'll crunch up a bunch of very unripe ones, leaving a batch of ripe ones...half of which will "turn" before I can attend to them. Okay, yeah, fussy fussy fussy. I know. And I don't really care.<br />
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Let's see if this signage helps! ;-) Anything goes in my pursuit of the perfect peach!</div>
Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-24796591395253514412013-06-12T15:44:00.000-04:002013-06-12T15:44:20.906-04:00Happy First Birthday Kitty!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's a little odd, knowing the birthday of my cat, even his birth order (youngest of four.) That's because he was born to a supposedly fixed cat adopted from a shelter by a friend of mine. It was kind of a strong arm kitten adoption ("You're my friend? You'll take a kitten, then.") but it turned out to be a wonderful thing. We all love this cat who, as his birthday card proclaims, is unique, fun, cute, smart <i>and</i> lovable! <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; font-size: 11px;">♡<span style="font: 11.0px STHeiti Light;">☼</span>♡ </span>We keep him in kitty treats and he keeps our collective blood pressures down, a lovely symbiotic relationship! </div>
Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-81854823104946911942013-05-26T09:05:00.002-04:002013-05-26T09:30:04.561-04:00Love Loaves<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My <i><b>Sourdough Adventure</b></i> continues! I decided it might be nice to have loaf shapes rather than the boules I have been making. For these loaves I used the <a href="http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/rustic-sourdough-bread-recipe">King Arthur Rustic Sourdough recipe </a>with a few home modifications. Instead of free-form (i.e. rustic) loaves I used loaf pans, and I also changed the recipe from all-white to multi-grain. These loaves include whole wheat flour, oat bran and ground flaxseed meal. I meant to dust the pans with cornmeal too, but forgot. I also added a 1/2 teaspoon of sour salt (aka citric acid, or vitamin C crystals) to boost the "tang" factor. It all worked out beautifully, this time at least! I've made several clunker batches too as I forge ahead on my sourdough adventure. Those loaves don't get blogged about, but they do get eaten, all the same. Homemade bread, even if far from perfect, still tastes good.<br />
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Now for some bread art shots...I just think the whole structure of bread is so gorgeous! It's like an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzixKZp_a0">art project</a> you can eat!<br />
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My peanut butter jar full of <a href="http://nourishedkitchen.com/how-to-make-a-sourdough-starter/">starter</a> continues to do just fine, living in my fridge with only sporadic feeding. I can be a bit scatter-brained so I thought for sure I'd kill her dead in no time but so far she seems perfectly content and healthy!<br />
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Somebody asked, so thought I would mention that yeah, I'm using NO fancy or specialized bread-baking equipment. No french bannetons, no danish dough whisk, no scoring knife, no kitchenaid dough hook, no proofing container, no dough-raising bucket, no silpat kneading mat, no baking stone etc etc. All that stuff does sound great but at the moment I am just having fun, enjoying a free-form free-for-all using only common kitchen utensils. I don't even weigh my ingredients the way <i>real </i>bakers do, although I may come to that in future. :-) Who knows?<br />
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Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-36903610249458547442013-05-21T19:14:00.001-04:002013-05-21T19:14:20.684-04:00A Henry & Katja Reunion<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Katja is visiting us from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg">Heidelberg</a>! It's been three or four years since she was last here. K and I drove out to Beaver Farm to see Henry. K wondered if H would remember her. I really think he did. As usual with Henry there were no glad words of remembrance but some intense stares and happy grins. Like, "Oh THERE you are!"<br />
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Nancy Bea Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04833697697334243593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5872102.post-14419970678693174442013-05-07T12:50:00.000-04:002013-05-09T08:35:04.933-04:00A Sourdough Baker's Dozen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is my second attempt at sourdough baking, using starter passed along by a local foodie acquaintance. My first attempt was disappointing, but this loaf: wow! It looks a complete little world. I used Jim Lahey's <a href="http://www.sullivanstreetbakery.com/recipes">no-knead recipe</a> for this try, substituting 1/2 cup of starter for the dry yeast.<br />
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