Thursday, December 31, 2020

Twenty Years in Emmitsburg

 

I took this photo this past summer -  five years of working in this courtyard garden and I have transformed it, I am proud to say.

I came back to live here in August of 1999... so it's a little over 20 years.  I've been teaching at Mount Saint Mary's University for 20 years.  

So  yesterday and today, I went back over, not my journals, which I have been very lax in keeping up, but my "At a Glance' appointment calendars.  That was an eye-opener for me.

Here is my very long list.  All the classes taught and many other things are not listed.  Just the "social" things.    This may be way too much information for most of my readers, but it's a place I can keep this list for my own reference.  I'll reflect on them in a later entry.

So, starting in 2000,

Highlights:

From my weekly planner:

 2000:

1.      Midnight Mass in the Basilica for the New Millennium. Celebrated by Dan Nussbaum

2.      New Years Open House at Guillemin House on Wilkens Ave. in Baltimore

3.      February 2: Mohs Surgery & Pedicle Flap on my nose  Dr. Renfro, Annapolis

4.      At the Years Elbow  published by Mellen Poetry Press

5.      Feb. 15   Dad went AWOL from Little Sisters; found him in West Chester

6.      March 4-11 Spring Break Campus Ministry Service Trip to L’Arche Mobile ALA

7.      April 4-10  Charity Connections Trip to Santa Fe.   Tommy Guss commits suicide in West Chester

8.      May 3 – Prairie Warbler in Marriottsville

9.      May 19- Gall bladder surgery at Providence Washington

10.   June 25-30-  Indiana University Writers Conference – Kate Daniels

11.   June 22- 30:  Princeton Retreat -  Joe McClain

12.   August 17-19    - First Mountward Bound     O’Dwyer Retreat House, Sparks

13.   September 20-24: Cape May

14.   December 23:  Judy Collins in Hagerstown

 

 

2001:

1.      Feb.21-25    Art & Soul Conference at Baylor University, Waco Texas.  Meet Jane Hirschfield

2.      March 4-10:  Cape May

3.      April 20-22:  Charity Connections meeting , Convent Station NJ New Jersey

4.      May 3-6: Seton Legacy Conference- Cincinnati

5.      May 29-June 10:  Retreat in Evansville ( I give it)    Kate Daniels visits there

6.      June 26    :  Mark’s Kitchen in Takoma Park with Peggy McGarry

7.      June 29-July 1:  Dorothy Mabey visits

8.      July 5-8:  Seton Legacy Conference in Emmitsburg       Janet Gildea sings

9.      July 27-August 10:  Los Altos Hills, California  retreat  ( I give it)

10.   September 8: First Annual National Book Fair, Library of Congress.  Also, Angele’s Jubilee

11.   September 11:  Terrorist Attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon

12.   October 10-14:  Seton Legacy Conference at Convent Station, NJ

 

 

 

2002:

1.      March 28: visit Josephine Jacobsen and Susan Abbott

2.      April 17-21: Calvin College Festival of Faith and Writing  Grand Rapids Michigan

3.      May 17: visit Josephine and Susan

4.      June 1-5: West Chester University Poetry Conference: stay with Debbie and Randy

5.      June 16-22: Provincial Assembly, Emmitsburg

6.      June-  applied for Medicaid for Mom and Dad ( continues into September)

7.      July 19-29:  Federation Retreat in Halifax Nova Scotia

8.      October 6-8: visit Dorothy Mabey in Rutherford NJ

9.      October 8-10  Cape May; visit Josephine and Susan

10.   November 6:  I give poetry reading at West Chester Book Center

11.   December 6:  Susan died

2003:

1.      January 2-5: Catholic Campus Ministry Conference, Orlando

2.      February 15-16  big Blizzard  54 inches

3.      March 17:   major eye surgery in Frederick    Dr. Tash

4.      May 8:  visit Broadmead, birding with Dot G.

5.      May 14-22:  Princeton  retreat

6.      May 31-June5  : Cape May

7.      June 5-7: West Chester University Poetry Conference: stay with Debbie and Randy

8.      June 16:  major eye surgery in Frederick:  repair detached retina

9.      July 10: dinner with Elizabeth McDonough

10.   July 24-27:  Provincial Meeting in Emmitsburg

11.   July 28-   August2:  Renewal in Emmitsburg

12.   September 4:   memorial Mass for Josephine  at College of Notre Dame

13.   October 5: Mass at Carmel with Beth Spires

14.   October 15-18   Cape May

15.   December 29- major eye surgery in Frederick    infirmary until Jan 14

 

2004:

1.      Jan.24-28:  Snow, sleet, ice event closes MSMJ

2.      May 15: Mom and Dad’s 60th anniversary celebration at Little Sisters

3.      June 6-8  Cape May

4.      June 9-12:   West Chester University Poetry Conference: stay with Debbie and Randy

5.      July 1-9   Retreat – Princeton

6.      August 14-15:  Jeanne Sanna and daughter visit

7.      October 1-19:  Heritage trip to Paris, Lourdes, Florence

8.      October 21-23:  Christianity and Literature Conference in Dayton OH

9.      December 21: Cataract surgery ( left eye) infirmary until Dec. 25

2005:

1.      Jan. 5:  visit Beth Spires

2.      Jan 6-7   visit Barb and Punchie Guss in West Chester

3.      January 9:  Heart Attack.  ER, then overnight in G’burg ICU, then to York Hosp. for stent insertion

4.      Jan.10-13  : in York Hospital.  Back to Infirmary Jan 13-17

5.      March 16-23 Cardiac rehab  Gettysburg Hosp

6.      April 1-3   SJC Reunion

7.      April 19  - new Pope – Benedict XVI

8.      May28-June4:  Cape May

9.      June 4-5  MSM Reunion

10.   June 8-11:  West Chester University Poetry Conference:  stay with Debbie and Randy

11.   June 6:  drive Teresa Ann to visit brother in Philadelphia; I visit Ann Maureen Gallagher IHM

12.   June 27-30: Rehoboth Beach with Patty Branson

13.   July 27-31  Provincial Mtg. Emmitsburg

14.   September 16-18:  SJC Board Mtg and 8 women stay with me in White House, Museum side

15.   October 7-9 : Rehoboth Beach with Patty and Bob

16.   October 11: Goucher College: poetry reading  WS Merwin

 

2006:

1.      January 30:  Al Kauffman’s funeral- Christiana PA….cousins lunch…. The Fisher Book

2.      March 9:  Mom broke her hip – hospital and surgery til March 15

3.      April 20-23: SJC Reunion weekend

4.      May 5:  lunch with Karen Keely

5.      June 3:  Dad in St. Agnes Hospital until June 6

6.      June 7: Breakfast with Glenford Kauffman and sibs at Diener’s in Soudersberg

7.      June 7-8  West Chester with Debbie and Randy

8.      June 9-16:  Cape May

9.      July 12:  visit Kauffman cousins – stay with Ellen Eby and family in Gap PA

10.   July 20-23:  Vincent 3 conference at St. John’s University, Queens

11.   July 27-31:  Provincial Mtg. in Eburg

12.   August 7-13-  Retreat – Princeton

13.   August 14-17:  Rehoboth Beach with Patty

14.   September 15-17:   SJC Alumnae Board mtg and women stay with me in WHMS

15.   October 11:  Bethesda  at Patty’s

 

2007:

1.      Jan 7-9 visit in West Chester with Debbie and Randy

2.      Jan 12-12:  Maryann Lesso visits in Eburg

3.      Jan 26:  visit with Glenford and Amish cousins at Glenford’s overnight

4.      March 7:  snow

5.      March 16: heavy snow

6.      April 12-15: SJC Alumnae Reunion   at the IKE

7.      April 28:  visited Amish cousins – lunch at their home   John Kauffman, Be and Rebecca Kauffman

8.      May 27-June 3:  Cape May

9.      May 5:  Dad accepted into hospice at Little Sisters

10.   May 6-9:West Chester University Poetry Conference

11.   June 24-July 2: Retreat in Evansville

12.   July 26-  bus trip to Buffalo for Provincial meeting

13.   July 27:  Dad died

14.   August 7: Dad’s Memorial Mass at Little Sisters

15.   August 31:  John Herley’s ( cousin) wedding in Philadelphia

16.   Manuscript for Scattered Showers in a Clear Sky  accepted by Plain View Press

17.   September 13-16:  Cape May

18.   September 18   :  meet Patricia Hampl

19.   September 21-23  SJC Alumnae Board mtg and women stay with me at WHMS

20.   October 19  Joan Gormley dies

21.   November 6:  dinner with Gene Whissel at Tasting Room in Frederick

 

2008:

1.      January 3-6 : West Chester- visit Barb and Eileen – stay with Debbie and Randy; Delaware Museum of Art with Barbara Harris and Deb and Randy

2.      Jan 13: West Chester: Communion Breakfast Shanahan and visit with Toni Lutz

3.      January 31- Feb. 3   New York City: AWP Conference; shared room with Susan Bright;supper with Suzanne and Brian Smith; supper with plain View Press bunch; brunch with Annie Bien

4.      January 7- 10  Domestic Assembly, Eburg;  I have the flu

5.      Feb. 20-22  Snow and Ice

6.      March 7-9    Harvey Cedars NJ  Work in Progress Retreat    Deborah Humphries

7.      March 14:  Sr. Raymond Newell dies suddenly

8.      March 26-30 :  SJC Reunion Weekend  the IKE

9.      Take Bob Kalas to Hopkins for his radiation treatment; visit him at Hopkins May 19

10.   May 24-31; Cape May

11.   June 3;  I give poetry reading at Miller Cabin  DC

12.   June 5-7   West Chester University Poetry Conference   stay with Debbie and Randy

13.   July 8-16: Retreat, Emmitsburg

14.   July 20-27; Provincial Assemly, Emmitsburg

15.   August 8 – 10: Cape May, then Harvey Cedars, poetry reading at Maris Stella

16.   Sept. 11 : dinner at Carriage House with Maureen and Charlie Smith

17.   Sept.13  SJC Board Mtg.

18.   October 24-26 : Saint Louis   Our Lady of the Snows  meeting

19.   October 29:   gyn exam with Dr. Ellsworth; tumor is malignant

20.   November 11:  York Gynecology: Drs. mcGuinness, Miller

21.   MRI, PET Scans, etc.

22.   Dec. 8: York: D&C, Hysteroscopy, exam under anesthesia

23.   Radiologist consult  Dr,Shokek   Dr. Narang,   Port inserted

 

2009:

January 6- Feb.26:  radiation and chemo and brachiotherapy in Gettysburg and York

Feb.6:  Hospital ER: blurred vision, dehydration, etc.  in our Infirmary until April 3

April 16-19:  SJC Reunion at the IKE: Debbie and Barbara here ( Randy’s cancer diagnosis)

April 27:  Pick It Up and Read  manuscript accepted by Finishing Line press

May 30-June 7:  Cape May

June 26-28:  Jody and Lib visit; stay in White House Guest Side

July 16-19     Federation Meeting “70’s and Beyond” in Leavenworth KS

July 20-28   Retreat Emmitsburg

August 7-9    Barbara Harris’ birthday; visit Debbie and Randy; overnight at Barbie Guss’

August 16: Maple Grove Mennonite Church 100th celebration, Gap PA  overnight at Ellen Eby’s

September 18-29    Maryann Lesso overnight; SJC Board Mtg.

October 28:  manuscript for  How the Hand Behaves  galley mailed to Finishing lIne Press

November 4:  exam under anesthesia at York Hospital – short stay

December 10: port removed

December 19: major snowstorm

2010

1.      January 6:  Bethesda – at Patty’s

2.      Jan 8-10:   Pennsylvania:   visit Aunt Jane Kauffman, then on to Debbie and Randy’s

3.      Jan. 13:  visit Teresa Cero in College Park

4.      Feb. 5-12 snowstorm followed by big blizzard

5.      March 6: G’burg: supper with Marty and Jane Malone and Robert Ducharme

6.      March 11: with Patty – Dana Gioia at Georgetown Visitation

7.      March 23: MSM – poetry reading and book signing

8.      March 27:  dinner with Glenford and Martha Kauffman at Hickory Bridge Farm

9.      April 8-11 SJC Reunion at the Wyndham

10.   April 21:   poetry reading at Patty’s in Bethesda – Marty Galvin and Rod Jellema, etc. here

11.   April 29:  manuscript for Digging for God  accepted by Wipf and Stock.

12.   May 23:   visit with Maureen Beitman

13.   May 26-27: visit Dorothy Mabey in Rutherford

14.   June 9-12  West Chester University Poetry Conference – stay with Debbie and Randy

15.   June 13-18:  Cape May

16.   June 22-July 6:  I give retreat in Los Altos Hills California, then visit Mary Ann Shattuck in Twain Harte

17.   July 8-11:  Provincial Meeting in Emmitsburg

18.   August 4:  visit Patty in Bethesda

19.   August 9-16:   Retreat in Emmitsburg

20.   September 10: visit Mom – overnight at Little Sisters

21.   September 23-26:  Cape May

22.   October 2:  Dinner with Marty and Jane Malone

23.   October 6:   Mom died at 11:10 PM

24.   October 20:  my poetry reading/book signing at MSM

25.   October 29:  Mom’s funeral at Little Sisters

26.   November 13 :  Marty Galvin reading at Politics & Prose; overnight at Patty’s

27.   December 19: Lunch/dinner with Teresa Cero and Seton girls

28.   Dec. 21:  passed out in Villa Hall; ambulance to ER in G’burg; 2 pints blood overnight in hospital

2011:

1.      February 2-6:  AWP Convention in DC; stayed with Maryann Lesso

2.      March 4-6:   Mud Sale and visit Amish cousins; overnight at Glenford’s

3.      March 29: supper with Maureen and Charlie Smith

4.      March 31-April 3:  SJC Reunion – Wyndham

5.      April 16:  BSHS Class reunion : Concordville Inn

6.      May 29-June 5    Cape May

7.      June 9-12:  Cincinnati: Federation Meeting

8.      June 30:  dinner with Judge Jenny Anderson in Bethesda

9.      July 6-14:  Retreat in Emmitsburg

10.   July 24:  dinner with Teresa Cero

11.   July 28-August 1:  VFM meeting in Baltimore – forming new province

12.   August 5:  I give poetry reading at Ragged Edge in G’burg

13.   August 27: lunch with Teresa Cero, Charlotte, and Paula

14.   September 22: SJC Alumnae Board Mtg. I host women in WHMS

15.   October 13-15 : visit Debbie and Randy in West Chester

16.   October 22:  Seton HS class of 1976 reunion in Balto.

17.   December 26: lunch with Teresa Thacker and children

 

2012:

1.      January 27-29:   SJC Reunion planning mtg.  I host in WHMS

2.      Feb 14:  lunch with Teresa Cero

3.      Feb. 26-28: West Chester: overnight at Barbie’s, then Tom and Roz Abbotts

4.      March 27: dinner with Maureen and Charlie Smith

5.      April 4:   final meeting with ES

6.      April 8:  Maureen Beitman died today

7.      April 11: Ellen Bryant Voigt at Gettysburg College

8.      April 12-14  : Marty Dermody here

9.      April 21: lunch with Teresa Cero

10.   April 22: Hanover: dinner and poetry reading with Jane and Marty Malone

11.   May 27: Gettysburg: cookout at Gary Ciocco’s

12.   May 28: lunch with Teresa Cero

13.   June 4-11: Cape May

14.   June 30- July 2: West Chester:  visit Debbie and Randy; visit Tom and Joanne McNaney in Newtown Square

15.   July 19-23: Provincial meeting – Indianapolis

16.   July 23-August 6:  Retreat in Syracuse, then visit Maureen and Charlie Smith in Adirondack NY, then visit Jack and Mary Higgins in Middlebury Vermont

17.   August 31-Sept.2:   Reunion planning mtg SJC in WHMS

18.   September 21-23: SJC Board Meeting- host in WHMS

19.   October 9-11:  Cape May – stayed at Cape Harbor Motor Inn

20.   November 2-4:  SJC Reunion planning – I host in WHMS

21.   Dec. 28:  BJ  Harris, Barbara’s son, found dead at his home

 

2013

1.      Jan. 3-7   West Chester: stayed with Debbie and Randy; BJ’s wake and funeral

2.      Jan 9: lunch with Teresa Cero at Baughers

3.      Feb. 1-3:   SJC Reunion planning: I host in WHMS

4.      Feb 6-17:   flu

5.      April 3-7:   SJC Alumnae Reunion at the Wyndham

6.      April 18:   meet Fr. James Martin SJ  at MSM

7.      April 21:  lunch with Seton girls

8.      April 24:  lunch with Patty Branson in Frederick

9.      May 2:  funeral Mass for Sue Ciotta

10.   May 17-19 ;  visit in West Chester

11.   June 1-8: Cape May

12.   June 20-July 3:  visit New Orleans; stay at House of Charity; visit Angele; Retreat in Covington

13.   Vexed Questions published

14.   July 25-28:  Nightsun Writers Conference in Frostburg

15.   August 15-18    SJC Reunion Planning: I host groupin WHGS

16.   September 6-8    Provincial  Mtg.

17.   September 20-22   SJC Alumnae Board Mtg.  I host group in WHMS

18.   October 20:  West Chester: Kay Ryan reading and reception

19.   November 4:  Rochester NY:   Cousin Jared Klepacz’s funeral; travel with Dave Higgins and wife

20.   November 29:  Mechanicksburg PA   visit at Dave Higgins’ house: Tom and Pat, Mike and wife.

21.   December 20-22:  visit Debbie and Randy in West Chester

 

2014

1.      January 4    4 degrees.  Drove to Leola and visited Glenford, in search of a Snowy Owl

2.      Jan. 16-20:   SJC Reunion planning. I host group in WHMS\

3.      Feb. 9  lunch with Teresa Cero

4.      March 20 Reconnaissance accepted by Texture Press

5.      March 27-30   SJC Reunion at the Wyndham

6.      April 3-6:  drive to Albany, then Middlebury VT.  For Jack Higgins’ funeral.

7.      April 12:  to West Chester to see play “Dear Elizabeth” with Debbie

8.      May 1:   see play “Henry IV Pt. 1” with Bob and Patty in DC   overnight there

9.      May 2:   First Friday poetry reading- Emilia Philips

10.   May 3:  Birding at Holt Park, Balto.  Visit Teresa Cero and her brother

11.   May 17  : I give poetry reading at LitMore in Baltimore

12.   May 24: lunch at Carriage House with Tom Leonard and Karen Mattschek

13.   May 25-June 2:  Cape May

14.   June 3-7:  West Chester University Poetry Conference, stay with Debbie and Randy

15.   June 22-28: Saint Louis:  Provincial Assembly of the Province of Saint Louise.

16.   June 28-July 9 -  very sick with bowel obstruction; in Gettysburg Hospital for four days

17.   July 11-19 – private retreat in Emmitsburg

18.   July 26-28 – West Chester for Memorial Mass for Lonnie Rusling Pietro

19.   July 29:  dinner with Marty and Jane Malone

20.   August 2-11:  Santa Fe/Albuquerque:  Glen West Workshop

21.   September 22: fell down stairs at MSM and broke foot

22.   September 25-28:   SJC Alumnae Board Mtg; I host women at WHMS

23.   October 16: lunch with Patty Branson in Frederick

24.   October 18: dinner at Marty and Jane’s

25.   Mailed manuscript of Life List to Finishing Line Press ( accepted later)

 

2015:

1.      Jan. 1-4 Sick with bowel obstruction

2.      January 16-18   SjJC Reunion Planning; I host group in WHMS

3.      February 19-22: Los Angeles – Catholic Imagination Conference

4.      March 5:  big snowstorm

5.      March 19-22   SJC Alumnae Reunion at the Wyndham

6.      May 15-17:   visit Jerry and Anne Klein at Sea Isle City

7.      May 24-31: Cape May

8.      June 1:  I give poetry reading at Café Muse in Chevy Chase:  Jean Denney, Patty, Mary Vincent

9.      June 14: Gettysburg ER:  IV fluids for dehydration

10.   June 25-July 2:  Retreat, Emmitsburg

11.   July 6-8   West Chester, visit Debbie and Randy

12.   July 12-17:  bowel obstruction, in hospital

13.   August 24: lunch with Teresa Cero

14.   September 25-27: SJC Alumnae Board Mtg.  I host women in WHMS

15.   October 20:  Mohs surgery on right temple – Dr. Iorizzo, York

16.   November 18:  overnight at Patty’s in Bethesda

17.   December 28-30: visit Debbie and Randy in West Chester

18.   Dec.31-Jan.13:  sinus infection

2016

1.      January 14-17: SJC Reunion planning: I host in WHMS

2.      January 23 : Blizzard: three feet of snow

3.      Feb.14:  I give poetry reading at IOTA in Alexandria

4.      President Newman resigns at MSM

5.      March 31-April 2:  SJC Alumnae Reunion at the Wyndham

6.      April 19: I give poetry reading at the Curious Iguana in Frederick

7.      May 8:  Mothers Day dinner with Gene Whissel and wife and children

8.      May 24-28:   Poetry by the Sea Conference in Madison Connecticut

9.      June 3-8; 12-16  Cape May

10.   June 8-11:  West Chester University Poetry Conference – stay with Debbie and Randy

11.   June 24:  supper with Marty and Jane Malone

12.   July 7-17: I give retreat in Evansville

13.   July 21: visit Surreybrooke Gardens with Debbie and Barbara

14.   July 29: funeral Mass for Lou Herley in West Chester

15.   August 7-15:  my retreat in Albany NY

16.   September 15-18:  SJC Alumnae Board Mtg.  I host group in WHMS

17.   September 22-25  Cape May

18.   October 11-13:  Cape May\

19.   October 21-23:  BSHS 50th reunion in Downingtown.  I stay with Franny Roberts Pierce

20.   October 27-30: ALSCW Conference at Catholic University; I give reading

21.   November 6: I give reading at WCU Poetry Salon in West Grove

22.   November 7:  car crash on the way home;  I am sick with chest cold all week

23.   Nov. 8   Trump wins election

24.   December 27:  party at Ed and Teri Egans

 

2017:

1.      Jan. 12-16: SJC Reunion planning: I host girls in WHMS

2.      January 13:  I get hearing aid

3.      February 8-11: AWP Conference in DC: I stay at Providence House; breakfast with Kate Daniels

4.      Reconnaissance published

5.      Dinner with Maureen Corrigan – she was here for the Ducharme lecture

6.      March 23-25:  SJC Alumnae Reunion

7.      April 5: poetry reading with Bill Jones at Curious Iguana – Scotch is there

8.      April 26-30: Catholic Imagination Conference at Fordham; I’m on panel.  Gary Vena, Patty, Barbra come.

9.      May 28-June 3: Cape May

10.   June 7-11:  West Chester University Poetry Conference: stay with Debbie and Randy

11.   July 10-18: I give poetry retreat in Albany

12.   July 20-22:  SJC Reunion planning with Class of 68 WHMS

13.   August 4: lunch with Teresa Cero

14.   August 8-16   Retreat in Emmitsburg    Franny Tobin visits on Aug. 10

15.   September 14-18: SJC Alumnae Board Mtg. – I host women in WHMS

16.   October 10:  visit Patty Branson in Bethesda

17.   October 20-22:  SJC Reunion planning with class of 73 – WHMS

18.   MSM President Tim Trainor inauguration

19.   November 24-27:  in Rehoboth Beach with Patty and Bob

20.   December 11-14:  Bowel Obstruction – Gettysburg ER

 

2018

1.      January 12-15: SJC Reunion Planning – I host in WHMS

2.      February 2-4   :  visit Leslie Blackshaw and husband in Bel Air

3.      Feb. 9:  Patty Branson here

4.      Feb.26-March 22:   Paris!   International Retreat at Motherhouse, etc.

5.      April 12-15: SJC Alumnae Reunion at Wyndham

6.      April 19: dinner with Marty and Jane Malone

7.      May 27-June 3: Cape May

8.      June 6-9: West Chester University Poetry Conference: stay with Debbie and Randy

9.      June 19-22:  Rehoboth Beach with Patty and Bob

10.   June 27:  poetry reading- Joe Ross in Lancaster ( went with Marty and Jane)

11.   July 8-11: SJC classmates celebrate our 70th birthdays – I host in WHMS

12.   Jul7 21-22:  Kauffman Family Gathering: overnight at Janet’s and then Glenford’s

13.   August 11: lunch with Patty at AyseMeze in Frederick

14.   August 17 -  begin ESL tutoring with Brenda PS in Frederick

15.   August 29-  overnight at Patty’s in Bethesda: Marty Galvin’s wake

16.   Sept. 18-20  Bowel Obstruction; Sept 21-23: SJC Alumnae Board Mtg.  host at WHMS and GS

17.   Oct. 15: Manuscript for  Not Only But Also accepted by Duck Lake Press.

18.   Dec. 5: I give poetry reading at Catholic University  - Suzanne, Mary V, Greg Friedman there

19.   Dec. 20 -24:  Bowel Obstruction -  in Gettysburg Hospital

 

2019

1.      Jan 4:  supper at Sarah Stokeley’s with Marty and Jane; I’m featured reader at Ragged Edge

2.      Jan. 6: Brunch at Marty and Jane’s

3.      Jan 16:  Carriage House lunch with Debbie, Randy, and Barbara Harris

4.      Jan. 22:  Book Club Reading Group in G’burg:  Jane, Nancy Whitman, etc.  Composing a Life.

5.      Jan. 24-27:  SJC Reunion Planning – I host at WHMS

6.      Jan 28-Feb 1-  snowstorms and very cold

7.      Feb. 8:  dinner at Marty and Jane’s

8.      Feb. 10: lunch with Teresa Cero

9.      Feb.13-16:  major surgery – Small Bowel resection ( Dr. McKee) G’burg Hospital

10.   Feb. 28-March 4:  Snowstorms and cold. (No teaching this semester.)

11.   March 9:  Tom Baumgartner’s funeral in Baltimore

12.   March 18-21: Marty Dermody visits, then, SJC classmates visit WHGS

13.   April 4-7:  SJC Alumnae Reunion at the Wyndham

14.   April 14:  visit Diane Sagnella in West Chester; overnight at Debbie’s

15.   April 29:  lunch with Patty in Frederick

16.   May 26-June 2:  Cape May

17.   June 5-9: West Chester University Poetry Conference – stay with Debbie and Randy

18.   July 17: dinner in Balto with Teresa and Charlotte; lecture on Bees at Natural History Society

19.   July 22-26:  SJC girls at Rehoboth Beach with Patty

20.   August 2: picnic supper at Catoctin Breeze Winery with Susan and Ron Valenti

21.   August 3:  dinner at Marty and Jane Malone’s

22.   August 10-19:  Retreat in Emmitsburg

23.   August 24: visit here with Debbie, Randy and Barbara H

24.   August 31:   National Book Festival at Convention Center DC – Bus from MSM; RuthBaderGinsburg  interview!

25.   September 21:  SJC Alumnae Board Mtg.  

26.   October 10-11 : visit Patty in Bethesda

27.   November 6: I give poetry reading at Curious Iguana, Frederick  ( Patty, Kathy McNaney there)

28.   Dec. 27:  lunch with Teresa Cero

 

2020

1.      Jan. 11:Atlas Obscura event: Raptors of the Nations Capital (Fort Meade area.)

2.      Jan. 12:  poetry reading in Balto at Bird in Hand Bookstore with Marty and Jane

3.      Jan 16-20:   SJC Alumnae Reunion Planning – I host in WHMS

4.      Feb. 7:  I give poetry reading in Northern Virginia -  overnight in Bethesda with Patty

5.      Feb. 21:  visit at Ed and Terri Egan’s house ( Irish Setter!)

6.      March 4: retirement dinner for Kristen Urban at Nancy Whitman’s house

7.      March 11:   COVID PANDEMIC QUARANTINE BEGINS. Last day of classes on campus for me.

8.      June 8: I ushered second set of Mallard chicks out of the courtyard!

9.      June 29-July 8:  Retreat in Emmitsburg

10.   July 11-16:  Provincial Assembly – ALL ON ZOOM

11.   September 25-27:  Cape May

12.   October 3: SJC Alumnae Board ON ZOOM

13.   October 9:  I voted!

14.   November 3:  Election Day – Biden wins

15.   November 7:  Lockdown in our house begins  COVID TESTS FOR ALL

16.   November 23:  MOHs surgery on tip of my nose-  Dr. Iorizzo in York  - skin graft

17.   Dec. 21:  Sr. Mary Catherine Warehime’s funeral in Emmitsburg





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