Welcome to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!
This week’s questions come Kwizgiver, who was invited to play by a blogging buddy named Paula. Now you’re invited to play along, too.
The Old School Blogging Meme
I am passionate about …
- Pop music from roughly 1955 to 1995. There are earlier and later pieces I like. Just yesterday, one of my sisters started singing, “Dizzy, my head is spinning, and I instantly said, “by Tommy Roe,” because I knew virtually all of the songs on the charts in 1969.
2) Information literacy, a curse of a librarian
3) Making sure that people don’t take American Christian nationalism as the standard for most US Christians, and certainly not my value system
4) Accessibility
5) Apparently, this blog
I’d like to learn …
- It hasn’t changed. I want to know who my mother’s father’s mother’s parents, almost certainly from Ireland, were. Margaret Collins Williams died in 1931.
2) Who is my father’s mother’s father’s parents? Samuel Walker, I still remember, as he died in 1963 at the age of 90.
3) Where was John Olin, who came to what is now the United States in the latter third of the 17th century from Great Britain, born, and when?
4) American Sign Language, though the rudimentary lessons I’ve taken didn’t stick
5) Better time management, or failing that, the ability to say ‘NO’ more often.
Words
Things I say a lot …
- Words I intentionally mispronounce. Some of it I find funny, like refrigigator.
2) But others I say because their spelling would suggest a different pronunciation. Epitome is ep-i-tome, facetitious is face-tee-us
3) M-m-m-maybe
5) A seven-letter word beginning with A, usually while watching the news.
Places I’d like to travel to …
- There are so many, and relatively so little time. The places I’d like to go in the US would have to include the Grand Canyon.
2) There are almost 20 states I’ve never been to. I’ll pick Oregon, for no particular reason.
3) Ireland – I have relatives that I don’t even know who they are
4) Nigeria – ditto
5) New Zealand, because
Oh, the picture. It is the remains of my old K-9 school, Daniel S. Dickinson, which they sadly tore down in the early 1970s. Apropos of little, Steely Dan.
I’m rooting for the Seattle Seahawks over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX on Sunday, February 8, because the Pats have been in a record 11 games, winning 6. The ‘Hawks have been in 3 games, winning 1. New England beat Seattle in SB XLIX, 28-24, in February 2015.
Thank you for playing! Please come back next week.
