This is the season of Toastmaster contests. This time I participated in, and won, the Club, Area and Division levels of the Evaluation contest. Went to District 31 where my winning streak came to an end. Still had a great time, and look forward to next year’s contests.
Figure Drawing at the Worcester Art Museum
For the past few years the Worcester Art Museum has been offering figure drawing in the galleries on Thursday afternoons. A model is provided, along with a facilitator from the WAM teaching staff. There are usually a number of short poses (one to two minutes each) as a warm up, […]
A New Year’s Toast
I served as Toastmaker at my Toastmaster Club’s first meeting of 2017 and made the following toast: I have a remnant of a Christmas cactus I had been nursing along for several years with no visible growth. As I was rearranging the house after the holiday, I decided that it […]
Art Exhibit at the Sprinkler Factory
I finished our invitation post card for an exhibit at the Sprinkler Factory (the building had a previous life as the Rockwell Sprinkler manufacturing facility – and, interestingly enough, my mother worked there for a time during WWII.