July 26, 2009

The road to Harvard ends in ... Joplin?

The past year yielded several events in the academic job search, ending with buying a new (old) house in Joplin.

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Trip to Israel, Palestine, & Jordan

In the grand tradition of Mark Twain (The Innocents Abroad) and numerous less famous Americans, we recently toured “the Holy Land.” Norty picked this as the year to make our long-desired trip, and Terry did the planning.

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January 25, 2009

visiting grandkids

We spent a wonderful two weeks from late December to early January visiting our four grandkids (and their parents).

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December 10, 2008

Life in Joplin

Life in Joplin is good. We are renting a roomy house within a mile of the university, and the city has pretty much everything we need or want -- except for an Indian restaurant.

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