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About Me

I am a retired Spanish prof, taught at LCCC, a community college for many years. I live in Oberlin, Ohio a lovely college town where there are a lot of activities. I have traveled all over the world from Europe to the South Pacific and Australia. I am interested in archeology and have gone to the ruins in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras and Peru with those who have translated the hieroglyphs on several trips into the jungles. I love a lot of things. Read on.

My Interests

Gardening, playing the piano, music, poetry, dance, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people who have the same interests as I. I know a lot of writers, poets, professors, musicians, etc.

Music:

Everything from classical to jazz and flamenco. Love the blues, and a lot of the rock stars as well.

Movies:

Oldies like Gone With the Wind and a lot of foreign films.

My Blog

Night Art in a Spanish Café

Night Art in a Spanish CaféCircumcized hearts beating leaving nothing before, for or after the skins we now live in.Olé, cut off the bull's testicles as a testament to the machismo of Papa Hemingway.I...
Posted by Elena on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:15:00 PST

Blowing in the Wind

It is fall. A time for reminiscence. There is a time to live, a time to cry, a time to be happy and a time to fly away to another place. The winter winds will soon be here and the fl...
Posted by Elena on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:56:00 PST

Miriams poetry

I am going to try again to put Miriam's poetry here. My daughter, Miriam, has published quite a bit in different poetry journals and was the editor of the poetry magazine at Hofstra University w...
Posted by Elena on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:23:00 PST

Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles, was a very close friend of Edouard Roditi who has been at my home several times when he gave lectures here on Surrealism. Today after finally getting my VCR to work I watched a docu...
Posted by Elena on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:17:00 PST

Garden poetry

I wanted to include my poetry on the blog I just posted but the picture was too large and I couldn't resize it. So here is my poem:THE GARDEN OF EDENIt didn't have a flamenco beatIt didn't have...
Posted by Elena on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:28:00 PST

The Garden of Eden

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Posted by Elena on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:18:00 PST

When Now is Forever

Today is Now. It isn't tomorrow or later. I have ideas, thoughts and dreams and realize that NOW is WON spelled backward. KNOW is WONK and what is a wonk? LIVE that can be pron...
Posted by Elena on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:38:00 PST

Edouard Roditi

While looking through my bookshelves trying to find books on Oscar Wilde, I found a biography of Wilde written by Edouard Roditi, an old friend who came to Oberlin to lecture several times for my husb...
Posted by Elena on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:01:00 PST

A Living Dream

I live near the center of Oberlin, a college town with many students who study art, music, dance and are from many places, including other countries. There is a creek behind my back yard that is city ...
Posted by Elena on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:26:00 PST

FLAMENCO

I have spent many years in Spain traveling from one place to another.Sometimes I feel that the fire in my blood comes from having a first hand knowledge of not only the language, but the music, the pe...
Posted by Elena on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:34:00 PST