the red kitchen: Meet Olivia (the fish)

Everybody, meet Olivia (the fish).

He's white and orange and he came home with us in a bag.
Olivia (the girl) and Olivia (the fish) hit it off right away.
We bought him a vase for 45 cents at the thrift store, some pebbles from the dollar store, and a fake plant from the pet store. ?We also got him some water treatment stuff and some goldfish flakes.

Here he is acclimating to our room temperature (and appropriately treated) tap water from the comfort of his plastic bag.

When we let him loose later he even charmed us with his mad hide-and-go-seek skills.

So, we bought a fish today. ?Guess who named it.

Bryan doesn't know yet that we got it. ?Although, in all fairness, I did warn him the other day that I was thinking about buying a fish. ?

The truth is, I've tried to talk Bryan into buying a fish several times since we got married. ?I've succeeded a couple times, but the fish always dies a day or two later and then Bryan goes back to his?Scrooge-y ways. ?So I may have gone to buy the fish without him on purpose. ?Heh heh...

I had actually planned on buying a beta fish. ?I had a couple of beta fish (one at a time) for a while in high school and college and they were pretty hearty. ?My beta fish named Jackson was one that I got during my junior year of high school and it lasted all way through my sophomore year of college. ?

He even?survived?enjoyed a couple of trips on the airplane with me. ?He rode in my old Nalgene water bottle. ?And, yes, it was after the airlines were super strict about taking liquids on airplanes. ?Luckily the airport security figured that if I had a live fish actually swimming around in the water then it probably wasn't a bomb. ?(Side note: It wasn't a bomb. ?Score one for airport security using some good old common sense.)

Anyway, since Bryan and I got married the only fish we've ever had have been super cheapo goldfish. ?You know, the kind that they sell for 17 cents each that are really only meant to be sold as food for other fish. ?Man, whatevs. ?Goldfish are real fish too. ?(Though, admittedly, they do have a rather short shelf life.)

But, ahem, you may have noticed that Olivia (the fish) is not a beta fish. ?He's a goldfish. ?Partly we got him because he's so cute. ?

Also we got him because they were out of the cheap beta fish when Olivia (the girl) and I went to the pet store today. ?I had spent the whole trip to the pet store telling her how we were going to get a fish to bring home and after we found the fish we wanted wasn't available today she was getting pretty sad when I told her we'd have to go back another day.?

So instead I totally caved and bought a 17 cent goldfish instead. ?The new shipment of cheap beta fish comes in on Thursday, so I figured Olivia (the goldfish) could hopefully survive until then and then if he's still alive we'll just keep him instead of getting a beta fish. ?If he doesn't make it until Thursday, we'll go get a beta fish. ?Sentimental, I know.

But actually I did want a fish for sentimental reasons. ?Olivia (the girl) is starting preschool next week and she'll be gone almost as much as if she were in half day kindergarten. ?My heart is saying "Yahoo!" and "Boo hoo," all at the same time. ?I'm excited for all the free time to be able to focus on things and hopefully be really productive. ?But I'm not excited for the?loneliness?that may set in. ?So I thought I'd make sure I'm not the only living thing in the house when she's away. ?Hence, the new addition. ?

Obviously Olivia (the fish) isn't as friendly and cuddly as a dog or something, but we're not allowed to have pets (other than fish) and, anyway, I really am not interested in all the fur all over my stuff. ?And I had fish a lot when I was growing up, so, despite my realistic views on the lifeline of the common goldfish, I am a little sentimental about them.

Here's to hoping Olivia (the fish) doesn't die before tomorrow morning and I have lots of fun?frolicking?through the woods together and working on sewing projects while Olivia (the girl) is busy having the time of her life at preschool. ?:)

Source: http://www.the-red-kitchen.com/2012/08/meet-olivia-fish.html

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In its prime, the Tudor home on Front Street was a hub for the who?s-who of Harrisburg. The hallways and gardens would fill with the wives of influential Harrisburgers, gathered for tea and discussions regarding the issues of the day.

Named the Civic Club of Harrisburg, the ladies? impact on the city was deep and wide as they lobbied for social concerns.

Members of the women-only club paid for Harrisburg?s first free kindergarten, were instrumental in the establishment of a garbage collection system for the city and became champions of the ?City Beautiful? movement in the early 1900s.

The club took on environmental issues that affected residents? health, advocating for clean air and water and at one time, placed a bounty on flies. In 1914, members paid 5 cents per pint of flies, collecting more than 500.

Today the home, with its carefully tended garden and beautiful ballroom, is better known as ?the wedding place on Front Street.? A venue for brides and grooms to dance the night away above the banks of the wide Susquehanna River where Front and North streets meet.

Like many century-old organizations, the club has been challenged to adopt to the modern world. At its peak, club membership included more than 700 women.

Times have changed.

As more and more women entered the workplace ? and more things competed for people?s attention ? club membership began to fall off.

Now, more than 114 years after it began working in the city, the club is rebooting.

Members spent the better part of a year working on a strategic plan for the club, aimed at figuring out its future.

A few weeks ago, in the ballroom on the second floor of the mansion, the heads of several nonprofit organizations were sipping coffee and munching on breakfast. They talked about what their organizations are doing in the Harrisburg region and their plans for the rest of the year.

Habitat for Humanity is close to opening three new homes, they heard. Dress for Success is planning to start a mobile store for women in need of professional clothing. The arts program Barak is planning to launch an arts festival for young people.

The nonprofit breakfast get-together is one of the new initiatives being hosted by the Civic Club. President Beth Cornell is hoping it will become a way for the agencies to not only network, but identify community issues to tackle together.

Business have the Chamber of Commerce, Cornell said, ?but what about non-profits??

?Where do they meet, where do they talk?? she asked. ?We want to be outside facilitators.?

Hence the roundtable discussion a few weeks ago.

Other subtle changes are also taking place in the club. The old house is now wired ? both figuratively and literally, with a website and Internet access. There?s a new motto and logo.

But one of the most interesting initiatives is that the club has started broadcasting.

Each month the ladies host a speaker on a topic relevant to the community.

One month may be a speaker discussing Chesapeake Bay conservation and its impact on communities along the Susquehanna. Or a seminar on senior citizen crime prevention.

In the past, members and visitors would have to physically be present to hear the discussions. But this year the club piloted a program where they began broadcasting the sessions to the nearby Homeland Center.

They?re pursing a grant to allow them to continue to do so, and are working with other organizations in the area to increase their audience.

Then there is the building itself. Upkeep of the historic structure is expensive, but necessary. The club sees itself as a public space ? how can they capitalize on that?

Club officers are talking with the League of Women Voters to host political debates in the fall. Nonprofits can use the historic home for events.

?We?re still doing weddings, we?re still doing events, but we want to expand a little bit beyond that,? Cornell said.

This summer the club is holding a membership drive for women in the local community. More members means more hands to work on projects in the community.

?We have to think about our society today,? Cornell said. ?This place used to be where women would to find out what the issues are. What then is the role of our club? That?s what we want to tackle.

?I didn?t really want us to be known as ?the wedding club,?? Cornell said. ?I want us to be known as ?the Civic Club.??

Source: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/08/civic_club_of_harrisburg_looks.html

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If you?re anything like me, you yearn to become a good writer, a better writer, an inspiring writer, even, by learning from the writers you admire. But you neither have the time nor the money for an MFA program or expensive retreats and workshops with famous names. So you read W.H. Auden?s essays?and?Paris Review interviews with your favorite authors (or at least PR?s?Twitter feed); you obsessively trawl the archives of The?New York Times? ?Writers on Writing? series, and you relish every Youtube clip, no matter how lo-fi or truncated, of your literary heroes, speaking from beyond the grave, or from behind a podium at the 92nd?Street Y.

Well, friend, you are in luck (okay, I?m still talking about me here, but maybe about you, too). The Washington, DC-based non-profit Academy of Achievement?whose mission is to ?bring students face-to-face? with leaders in the arts, business, politics, science, and sports?has archived a series of talks from an incredibly diverse pool of poets and writers. They call this collection ?Creative Writing: A Master Class,? and you can subscribe to it right now on iTunes and begin downloading free video and audio podcasts from?Nora Ephron, John Updike, Toni Morrison, Carlos Fuentes, Norman Mailer, Wallace Stegner, and, well, you know how the list goes.

The Academy of Achievement?s website also features lengthy profiles?with text and downloadable audio and video?of several of the same writers from their ?Master Class? series. For example, an interview with former U.S. poet-laureate Rita Dove?is illuminating, both for writers and for teachers of writing. Dove talks about the aversion that many people have for poetry as a kind of fear inculcated by clumsy teachers. She explains:

At some point in their life, they?ve been given a poem to interpret and told, ?That was the wrong answer.? You know. I think we?ve all gone through that. I went through that. And it?s unfortunate that sometimes in schools ? this need to have things quantified and graded ? we end up doing this kind of multiple choice approach to something that should be as ambiguous and ever-changing as life itself. So I try to ask them, ?Have you ever heard a good joke?? If you?ve ever heard someone tell a joke just right, with the right pacing, then you?re already on the way to the poetry. Because it?s really about using words in very precise ways and also using gesture as it goes through language, not the gesture of your hands, but how language creates a mood. And you know, who can resist a good joke? When they get that far, then they can realize that poetry can also be fun.

Dove?s thoughts on her own life, her work, and the craft of poetry and teaching are well worth reading/watching in full. Another particularly notable interview from the Academy is with another former laureate, poet W.S. Merwin.

Merwin, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, discusses poetry as originating with language, and its loss as tantamount to extinction:

When we talk about the extinction of species, I think the endangered species of the arts and of language and all these things are related. I don?t think there is any doubt about that. I think poetry goes back to the invention of language itself. I think one of the big differences between poetry and prose is that prose is about something, it?s got a subject? poetry is about what can?t be said. Why do people turn to poetry when all of a sudden the Twin Towers get hit, or when their marriage breaks up, or when the person they love most in the world drops dead in the same room? Because they can?t say it. They can?t say it at all, and they want something that addresses what can?t be said.

If you?re anything like me, you find these two perspectives on poetry?as akin to jokes, as saying the unsayable?fascinating. These kinds of observations (not mechanical how-to?s, but original thoughts on the process and practice of writing itself) are the reason I pore over ?interviews and seminars with writers I admire. I found more than enough in this archive to keep me satisfied for months.

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Josh Jones is a doctoral candidate in English at Fordham University and a co-founder and former managing editor of?Guernica / A Magazine of Arts and Politics.

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