GREEN FESTIVAL, SAN FRANCISCO 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
I thought I’d have some breathing time when I got back from Southern California Wednesday, but Friday I checked with Washington School and I had a kindergarten class that morning, oops! then the gig at Tumble and Tea Saturday, and Sunday the Green Festival. The festival was even bigger this year—
ANOTHER BIRTHDAY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Just back from another trip to Southern California, this time with my daughter, Nancy Beth (just Nancy to her friends but Nancy Beth to us to avoid confusion), for the family/history tour and some art. First we went to Long Beach, staying Friday and Saturday night at the Westin Hotel on Ocean
BUSTING AT THE SEAMS
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
I was looking through Malvina’s lyric site this morning, couldn’t find the song with the line “This is the day the world turns over” but here’s this:
BUSTING AT THE SEAMS
Words by Malvina Reynolds, Music by Pete Seeger; copyright 2004.
Everything is busting at the seams,
No more seams, no more
No more seams, no more
HAVE YOU VOTED YET?
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
At Women Making Music camp last weekend, we were forbidden from talking about the “three Es,” the Environment, the Economy, and the Election. It was actually a welcome respite, but of course there was rebellion as well, in the form of a skit Saturday night featuring parodies with most of the words
THE POWER OF SONG
Monday, October 27, 2008
Thursday I ran across this in Malvina’s autobiography-that-kept-turning-into-a-journal:
March 9, 1976
When the people called me from Pitzer [women’s college in Pomona] for the seminars of Achievement for Women In Careers, they said, “We have a good panel of speakers, but we’d like something
writing malvina
Name: Nancy Schimmel
Hometown: Berkeley, California, USA
What I do: write songs, sing them and tell stories (as a volunteer at my neighborhood elementary school and for a fee elsewhere), read, swim, garden, run a tiny publishing company, Sisters’ Choice. Once in a blue moon I draw something, like the guitar case in this blog’s heading.
What I stopped doing to clear time to write the book: substituting at Berkeley Public Library,buying crossword puzzle books, singing in the Threshold Choir
Current favorite quote:
"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."
—J. B. S. Haldane
New Reading: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott. 1491: New revelations of the Americas by Charles Mann. Widening the Circle: The power of inclusive classrooms by Mara Sapon-Shevin,
Favorite Movies: All-time: My Dinner with Andre, Born Yesterday, Wings of Desire, Fargo, The Iron Giant, The Triplets of Belleville, The Sting, Chicago, Roman Holiday. Lately: The Visitor, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Welcome to my blog: It’s about my mother, Malvina Reynolds, about writing a biography of her, and a little about what I do when I’m not writing the biography (most of the time I’m not). Here’s a song of Malvina’s from the sixties that works right now: “We Hate to See Them Go.”
