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Harlaxton at Fifty (one)
Harlaxton College hosted a 50th reunion for former students on May 28-30, 2022–postponed a year due to Covid.
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Family Pride
The Kott/Rands clan is busy these days! Yesterday, Paul left to go on tour with his band, High Tone Son of a Bitch. Amy opened her own private therapy practice Amy Rands Therapy. Justin got a promotion from his company, Oyster. Oyster is doing well with an important concept that makes it easier to hire […]
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Going Dark: A Project
In her 2019 book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff describes the ways in which Google and Facebook in particular have benefitted enormously by making it easy for us to give up our privacy in exchange for convenience. Their profits are made from selling our data to other capitalist entities that use the data […]
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Kathryn B, Katherine Z, or Katherine B Kott
Chapter 1: Kathryn Baker Kott During the darkest days of Covid times, before vaccines were widely available, I was presented with two identity puzzles. Each of them required creativity and collaboration to resolve. One involved mis-tracked identity documents which caused me to have a complete meltdown before the documents were returned to me. But what […]
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Oh! Lassen
Katherine and Katrina are back with more camping adventures–this time, a post-Covid, pre-wildfires trip to Lassen National Park’s Butte Lake Campground. We’ll use a similar organizing principle to the one we used for Pinnacles. We are librarians, after all. With a couple of added categories to cover some car trouble and fishing. We may need […]
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Fava Saga
Once upon a time, there was a small vegetable plot in the garden of a home in Oakland, California. During the winter of 2019, the bathroom of the home attached to the vegetable plot was remodeled and the vegetable plot lay fallow. But it was not too late to plant a late winter crop of […]
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Shelter-in-Place Diary
Because life can be a little monotonous during shelter-in-place, I will try to keep it brief! For a change of pace from neighborhood walks, I took the dogs over to Alameda to walk along Shoreline. It was moderately busy. Most people were wearing masks. One person apparently lost her ice skates en route to the […]
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What’s That Low Whine?
Seemed like it was time for another blog post, but what to write about? My obsession with finding out whether or not I really had Covid-19 in early March? Reminiscences about pleasant past experiences like the Pinnacles Retrospective? Boring accounts of my days under shelter-in-place? Complaints about what I’m missing? Plans for the (uncertain) future? […]
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Pinnacles Retrospective
Hello, this is Katherine and Katrina hereafter known as KK and KA which should explain our cute spelling below. We have been friends for almost 25 years: first as work colleagues then as hiking buddies and now camping pals. Last year, at Pinnacles National Park, on our first camping trip together, we consumed a couple […]
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Shelter in Place
As of 12:01 am on Tuesday, March 17th, residents of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties have been ordered to “shelter in place” to help stop the spread of Covid-19. Most people were already working from home and schools and libraries have closed. This new measure limits non-essential travel […]