sky-t-tray ABCs

An Incomplete INDEX
of Archived Posts
for sky-t-tray

A
* A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway….in “Hemingway For Better & Worse”
* Fleur Adcock poem...in “Pi & Croissants”
* Louisa May Alcott…..in “A Scribbbling Suit“
* Anna Akhmatova…in “Heart’s Memory“
* Anne Shirley’s education….in “Anne Goes to College”
* Antarctica.…in “Wandering the West”
* Anti-Lynching Campaign....in “Hard-Headed & Wilful”
* 3 Archetypes of Male Suitors….in “Threepence“
* Archimedes….in “Siracusa”
* Arizona Road Trip.…in “Wandering the West”
* Armed Service Edition books…..in “100 Years From Now”
* Sylvia Ashton-Warner….in “Creative Teaching”
* This child hates asparagus…..in “Creative Teaching”
* Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers…… in “In Tune with the Times”
* Audiobook fans……see footnotes in “A Sense of Place”
* A John J. Audubon hand-colored print….in “Twofold View” 
* Jane Austen……in “Chawton”
* Mary Austin…..in “A Sense of Place”
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B
* Most babies delivered by a poet…..in“Doctor Poet”
* Johann Sebastian Bach…in “Well-Tempered Bach”
* Baltimore Museum of Art…in “Miles to Go”
* Baseball vs. Science……see footnotes in “Delighting in Details”
* Bats!…… in “Big Moons & Small Planets”
* Sylvia Beach…..in “For the Love of Books”
* “Beauty is Frightening”……in “Heart’s Memory“
* Visiting Belguim & the Béguinage….in“Bliss”
* Vanessa Bell’s painting…in “Woolf on War“
* Lake Berryessa Valley flooded….in “Holding Still”
* Favorite Black & White movies…..in “Unafraid to Fall”
* Nellie Bly….in “Newspaper Story“
* The Bloomsbury Set in 1920s London…in “Woolf on War“
* Small books…..in“100 Years From Now”
* Super small books…..in “Genius & Tragedy“
* Book-shopping on 3 continents…..in “For the Love of Books”
* Botanical Poetry….in “Twofold View”
* Botanist Willis Jepson…..in “Local Boy Makes Good“
* Elizabeth Bowen…in“Obstinate Rememberers“
* John Bowlby’s Theory inexpertly explained….in “Attachment”
* Bowlby’s Theory shown in literature….in “Magic in her Words“
* The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder….in “The Bridge”
* Brooklyn Bridge…in “A Book a Day”
* Brontë Sisters: Anne, Charlotte, and Emily…in “Genius & Tragedy“
* Pieter Brueghel the Elder paintings…..in“Doctor Poet”
* Visiting Budapest…..in “Belonging“
* Burning letters…in “Prairie Song”
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C
* California family at the beach….in “Heart’s Memory“
* “My candle burns at both ends“….in “A Lovely Light”
* Lewis Carroll……in “Dear Diary”
* Cat on board….see footnotes in “Wandering the West”
* Cat on duty….see footnotes in “Hemingway For Better & Worse”
* Cat with spite….in “Anne Goes to College”
* Willa Cather…in “Prairie Song”
* Anton Chekhov….in “Tenderness”
* Katherine J Chen‘s 2022 novel Joan…in “Secular Saint”
* The Cherry Orchard a play by Anton Chekhov….in “Tenderness”
* A Child’s Garden of Verses…..in“Treasure”
* Some BAD Classic Novels……in“Happy 3½”
* Some GOOD Classic Novels….in Library Catalog
* Why read Classic Novels?……in“Walt”
* Coatimundi sighting!…….see footnotes in “A Point of Pride”
* Coming-of-Age stories.....in “A Book a Day”
* The Committee of Impertinence…..in “Hard-Headed & Wilful”
* Cone Collection in Baltimore ……in “Miles to Go”
* Conformity…...in “Kicking Over the Traces”
* Corn Genetics ….in “Delighting in Details”
* Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner…..in “Invited In“
* George Cukor…..see footnotes in “Unafraid to Fall”
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D
* The ‘demon bowler’ of cricket….see footnotes in “Woolf on War“
* Babette Deutsch….in “Rules for Rhymes”
* Emily Dickinson…in “Selects Her Own“
* Dictionary Day!…in “The Right Word”
* Annie Dillard….in “Concealed Mystery”
* Dog-Walking across the moors…..in “Genius & Tragedy“
* Domrémy, France in two wars…..in “Dear Folks at Home“
* Fredrick Douglass‘ friend.…..in “Hard-Headed & Wilful”
* A bit about Downton Abbey….in “Threepence“
* Driving Each Other Crazy……in “Wandering the West”
* Duels…….in “A Point of Pride”
* Dumbledore Quotes…..in “Magic in her Words”
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E
* Duke Ellington….in “Jazz & Cocktails”
* Christopher Emdin…..in “Creative Teaching”
* An Emergency Landing….in “Escape to Italy”
* Environmental Vegetarianism……in “Big Moons & Small Planets”
* Nora Ephron……in “The Director’s to Blame”
* Eugene Onegin by Pushkin, in various translations….in “A Point of Pride”
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F
* F Scott Fitzgerald…..in “100 Years From Now”
* My Family’s Farm in Northern Michigan…..in “A Sense of Place”
* My Family’s Farm in Southern Illinois….in “Holding Still”
* Farm Security Administration (FSA) photography….in “Holding Still”
* Favorite Female Characters….in 4 Fantastic Female Characters
* Favorite Female Directors……in “The Director’s to Blame”
* Dorothy Fields…… in In Tune with the Times
* Fines for Speeding….see footnotes in “Magic in her Words“
* Carrie Fisher dances with her stepson….in “The News I Need”
* Ella Fitzgerald…..in “Jazz & Cocktails”
* 500 Wedding Invitations…in “Hard-Headed & Wilful”
* Flamenco Dancing……in “Belonging“
* Foggy San Francisco…in “Leaving Home”
* Reading For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood….in “Creative Teaching”
* Francie Nolan’s library…..in “A Book a Day”
* Best friends….in “Invited In“
* poems by Robert Frost……in “Miles to Go”
* a poem about Robert Frost…..in “Rules for Rhymes”
* Frozen in Polar Ice……in “Wandering the West”
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G
* A Game of 5 Words……in “The Director’s to Blame”
* My Gap Year.….in “Leaving Home”
* The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield….in“Bliss”
* Erroll Garner…in “Neighborhood Power”
* Elizabeth Gaskell….in “Escape to Italy”
* Martha Gellhorn……in “Letter Writing”
* Gossip at the Post Office…..in “Anne Goes to College”
* Our Grandma Debbie…..in “Reinvention”
* Cary Grant……in “The Silver Screen”
* The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald…..in“100 Years From Now”
* The Great Plains States of America….in “Prairie Song”
* The Greatest Showman…in “The Silver Screen”
* Visiting Greece….in“Fragments”
* A Greek Chorus likes my dialog… in “Happy Half Year!”
* Greek Temples….in “Siracusa”
* The Green Belt Movement……in “To Plant A Tree“
* Greenwich Village, NYC….in “A Lovely Light”
* Grumpy old men…..in “Invited In“
* Guns & Diamonds…..in “Tenderness”
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H
* Haiku by me about desert critters…in “Twofold View”
* Haiku by me about koi….in “Art Out”
* Oscar Hammerstein II, as Broadway producer……in In Tune with the Times
* Oscar Hammerstein II, as lyricist……in “A Voice and a Silence”
* Visiting Hampshire, England…..in “Chawton”
* Lorraine Hansberry….in “One Concrete Thing”
* Photography by Steve Hardesty….in “Big Moons & Small Planets”
* Photography by Steve Hardesty….in “Dissolving Boundaries“
* Thomas Hardy….in “Threepence“
* Harlem Renaissance and music...in “Jazz & Cocktails”
* Harlem Renaissance and poetry……in “Belonging“
* Ernst Hemingway….in “Hemingway For Better & Worse“
* Katharine Hepburn……in “Unafraid to Fall”
* The Herbarium of Emily Dickinson…..in “Selects Her Own“
* My Herbarium of California Wildflowers…in “To Plant A Tree“
* Hip Hop Music….in “Rules for Rhymes”
* “Hope is a thing with feathers“….in Selects Her Own
* A. E. Housman……in Fear of Poetry
* Langston Hughes…….in Belonging
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I
* I Wonder As I Wander by Langston Hughes..in Belonging
* If Not, Winter, a book of translations byAnne Carson….in Fragments
* Insects, gruesome…..in “Concealed Mystery“
* Io, the Most Volcanic Moon……in “Big Moons & Small Planets”
* Visiting Ireland….in “Obstinate Rememberers“
* Irresponsible drinking….in “Hemingway For Better & Worse”
* Visiting Central Italy….in “Escape to Italy”
* Visiting Sicily, Italy….in “Siracusa”
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J
* Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë…..in “Genius & Tragedy“
* January 6 (no, not that one)……in “Adventurer”
* Japanese-American tragedy….in “Holding Still”
* Jazz Greats Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington…..in “Jazz & Cocktails”
* Jazz Great Erroll Garner….in “Neighborhood Power”
* A Tenacious Jeffrey Pine Tree….in “The News I Need”
* Willis Jepson, botanist…..in “Local Boy Makes Good“
* Jo March as inspiration…..in “A Scribbling Suit”

* Joan of Arc & contrariness…in “Laughing & Crying”
* Joan of Arc & my grandfather…..in “Dear Folks at Home“
* Joan of Arc & my mother... in “Momisms”
* Joan of Arc & George Bernard Shaw…in “Adventurer”
* Joan of Arc as a soldier for France….in “Secular Saint”
* Joan of Arc & Mark Twain……in “January 6“

* My journal entries: age 9 – 17 ……in “Dear Diary”
* My journal entries: in Orléans 1989…in “Pi & Croissants”
* My journal entries: in New Zealand 1999-2004….in “Half a World Away“
* My journal entries: in New Zealand April 1999…..in “In Tune with the Times”
* My journal entries: in New Zealand April 2000… in “Sometimes Alone”

* Journalism & Nellie Bly….in “Newspaper Story“
* Journalism & Martha Gellhorn……in “Letter Writing”
* Journalism & Ida B Wells…..in “Hard-Headed & Wilful”
* Jumping genes….in “Delighting in Details”
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K
* Katniss Everdeen’s namesake..…see footnotes in “Threepence“
* Barbara Kingsolver….in “Twofold View”
* Kröller-Müller Museum ….in “Glorious Yellow Suns“
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L
* Lady-in-waiting to an Empress....in“Art Out”
* Hedy Lamarr……..in “Reinvention”
* Dorothea Lange….in “Holding Still”
* Frances Moore Lappé…… in “Big Moons & Small Planets”
* Leaves of Grass by Whitman.…in “Walt”
* Letters burned.…in “Prairie Song”
* Líadan, an Irish band….in“Obstinate Rememberers“
* Lift Every Voice sung by theBoston Children’s Choir…in “Hard-Headed & Wilful”
* Loitering with Intentby Muriel Spark……in “Time Off”
* Losing a poetry contest….in “A Lovely Light”
* Lost Love Letters found…..in “Letter Writing”
* A 30-year-long campaign against lynching.…in “Hard-Headed & Wilful”
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N
* Nebraska and the Great Plains…in “Prairie Song”
* New beginnings in a new place….in “Glorious Yellow Suns“
* Newspapers and the importance of journalists….in “Newspaper Story“
* New Zealand….in “Half a World Away“
* New Zealand teacher Sylvia Ashton-Warner…in “Creative Teaching”
* Marni Nixon……in “A Voice and a Silence”
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O
* Old Movies starring Cary Grant……in “The Silver Screen”
* Old Movies starring Katharine Hepburn…in “Unafraid to Fall”
* Our Town a play by Thornton Wilder….in “The Bridge”
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P
* Parenting workshops….in “Attachment”
* Visiting Paris……in “Pi & Croissants”
* Paris Bookshop circa 1920s…..in “For the Love of Books”
* Pedagogy, aka Kelly learns a new word...in “Creative Teaching”
* Pi Day! and Archimedes….in “Siracusa”
* Pi Day! in song……in “Pi & Croissants”
* Piano Concerto, Op. 7 by Clara Schumann..in “Discord & Devotion“
* The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon….in “Art Out”
* Pirates!…..in “Treasure”
* Pittsburgh’s Crawford Grill….in “Neighborhood Power”
* Suzanne Pittson, jazz vocalist & educator….in “Neighborhood Power”
* Playwright Anton Chekhov….in “Tenderness”
* Playwright Lorraine Hansberry….in “One Concrete Thing”
* Playwright Thornton Wilder….in “The Bridge”
* The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver…in “Twofold View”
* Cole Porter wins a bet….see footnotes in “In Tune with the Times”
* Visiting Prince Edward Island….in “Anne Goes to College”
* Prosody….in “Rules for Rhymes”
* Psychobabble….in “Delighting in Details”
* Puppies in Austen novels…in “The Right Word”
* Alexander Pushkin…….in “A Point of Pride”
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Q
* Quitting on a high note…..in “Concealed Mystery”
* Quiz about Astronomy……in “Big Moons & Small Planets”
* Quiz about Songwriters……in “A Voice and a Silence”
* Quiz about Poetry…..in “Doctor Poet”
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R
* Radical Self-Care……in “Time Off”
* Rain at Night and other jazz poems by KJH…..in “Jazz & Cocktails”
* A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry.....in “One Concrete Thing”
* Rap battles….in “Creative Teaching”
* Rap poetry…..in “Rules for Rhymes”
* Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier….in “Manderley”
* A recipe for Torte à la Wieck…see footnotes in “Discord & Devotion“
* A Red Record by Ida B Wells…in “Hard-Headed & Wilful”
* The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams..in “Doctor Poet”
* Re-reading old books…..in “The Whale”
* Rich & Poor…..in “100 Years From Now”
* A Norman Rockwell painting…..in “A Scribbling Suit
* Rodin Sculpture Garden……in “Pi & Croissants“
* Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire…… in In Tune with the Times
* Roget’s Thesaurus gets trendy….in “The Right Word”
* Roman Adventuring….in “Escape to Italy”
* J. K. Rowling….in “Magic in her Words”
* Rumi…..in “Dissolving Boundaries“
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S
* Saguaro Cactus Fruit…….in “A Point of Pride”
* Saints, Wheels, and Dragons….in “Secular Saint”
* Santa Rita Mountains, a poem by KJH.….. in “Sometimes Alone”
* Sappho…..in“Fragments”
* May Sarton.…in “Solitude”
* Clara Schumann….in “Discord & Devotion“
* The Seagull a play by Anton Chekhov….in “Tenderness”
* Seed Libraries of native plants ….in “A Point of Pride”
* Ernest Shackleton.…in “Wandering the West”
* George Bernard Shaw…in “Adventurer”
* Sei Shōnagon….…in “Art Out”
* Shakespeare and Company, Paris…..in “For the Love of Books”
* Shirley by Charlotte Brontë….in “Genius & Tragedy“
* My many siblings…….in “Unafraid to Fall”
* Visiting Sicily….in “Siracusa”
* Visiting Singapore…..in “Art Out”
* Paul Simon….in “The News I Need”
* Sisterly Shenanigans, circa 1940s.….in “The Right Word”
* Six-Month Celebration……in “Happy Half Year!”
* Six Principles of Storytelling...in “Tenderness”
* Grace Slick’s lyrics……in “The News I Need”
* Who made Smartphones possible?…..in “Reinvention”
* Betty Smith….in “A Book a Day”
* The Song of the Lark a novel by Willa Cather….in “Prairie Song”
* Solitude…… in “Sometimes Alone”
* Visiting South Africa…in“Aviatrix”
* Muriel Spark……in “Time Off”
* Wallace Stegner…..in “Invited In“
* Robert Louis Stevenson….in “Treasure”
* The 1940 U.S. Supreme Court on housing segregation…..in “One Concrete Thing”
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T
* Ten Minutes Ago by Rogers & Hammerstein……in “A Voice and a Silence”
* Thestrals…..in “Magic in her Words“
* Third Culture Kids….in “Aviatrix”
* A 20+ year Time Capsule……in “Letter Writing”
* Traveling without a chaperon—gasp!….in “Newspaper Story“
* Trees and the Green Belt Movement….in “To Plant A Tree“
* Tucson’s Food Award …….in “A Point of Pride”
* Mark Twain……in “January 6“
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U
* Ulysses publisher…..in “For the Love of Books”
* Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov….in “Tenderness”
* U.S. Congressional Record from 1875..see footnotes in “Magic in her Words”
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V
* Suzanne Valadon……in “Pi & Croissants“
* Vincent Van Gogh….in “Glorious Yellow Suns“
* Vanya on 42nd Street, a very good movie….in “Tenderness”
* Very noisy classrooms….in “Creative Teaching”
* Vespers a poem by KJH…..in “Time Off”
* Visiting Vacaville, my hometown…..in “A Sense of Place”
* A botanist from Vacaville…..in “Local Boy Makes Good“
* Visiting Vienna….in “Discord & Devotion“
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W
* War: American Civil War and Nursing…..in “A Scribbling Suit”
* War: Ireland in WW1 and WW2….in “Obstinate Rememberers“
* War: WW1 and billeting….in “Solitude”
* War: WW1 and horses…in “Momisms”
* War: WW1 and shell-shock…in “Woolf on War“
* War: WW2 and books for troops…in “100 Years From Now”
* War: WW2 and Japanese-American Internment….in “Holding Still”
* War: WW2 and Normandy……in “Letter Writing”
* War: WW2 and Torpedo Technology….in “Reinvention”

* Noah Webster…..in “The Right Word”
* Ida B Wells.…in “Hard-Headed & Wilful”
* Jessamyn West…..in “Sometimes Alone”
* Edith Wharton…...in “Kicking Over the Traces”
* What I Learned from the Movies, a poem by KJH…in “The Silver Screen”
* Walt Whitman……..in “Walt”
* Thornton Wilder….in “The Bridge”
* William Carlos Williams……in “Doctor Poet”
* Jeanette Winterson……in “Woolf on War“
* Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell….in “Escape to Italy”
* Virginia Woolf….in “Woolf on War“
* Work-Life Balance, 1890s style….in “Hard-Headed & Wilful”
* Writer’s Retreat in Arizona…….see footnotes in “A Point of Pride”
* Writer’s Retreat in New Zealand…in “Sometimes Alone“
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X
* Xenophiles….in “Pi & Croissants“
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Y
* Yawping about Cherry Blooms……in “Fear of Poetry”
* Yosemite National Park……in “The News I Need”
* To Be Young, Gifted, and Black by Nina Simone.....in “One Concrete Thing”
* Ovidia Yu….in “Art Out”
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Z
…okay. Got zilch for Z. But here’s a pony!…...in “Kicking Over the Traces”
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