Dale Ryman from WSAW in Wausau did a story on us. You know you’re from Stevens Point… from the 10pm show on July 15, 2024.
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My Stroke Story
I’ve been asked several times now how I knew I was having a stroke and what it felt like. I think people are worried that they might have one themselves and wanted to know what it was like. I wish I had recognized it sooner but my brain was not working correctly at the time. I was in denial. My brain was working just fine, as far as I could tell.
Wednesday February 28, 2024. I woke up in bed alone. Mary was getting out of the hospital today and I would be picking her up and taking care of her — there are lots of reasons to be short of breath, and she found some.
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Tanzania is coming to eat our lunch
I went to Tanzania in eastern Africa recently and climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. There will be pictures and a writeup on that. Some of what I saw there made me think.
Let’s Climb Kilimanjaro
Eldest kid Sam was coming off several months working in a COVID ward in New York City and wanted to do something big before she started medical school in August 2021. Some of her medical buddies suggested going hiking in Iceland, because Iceland was letting people in. With COVID testing, of course. Other voices thought going to Africa and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro would be fun. Tanzania was also letting people come. We climbed Mount Fuji in Japan in 2014. That was fun and a real adventure. How much harder could Kilimanjaro be?
Lots harder, as it turned out.
Picture book of Claude and Mary Warren
This was apparently a gift to Dick Warren on the occasion of his Ph.D. from Stanford. It is a collection of pictures of his parents Claude and Mary Warren and their life growing up.
Ave Maria multi track experiment
I’ve been experimenting with recording myself singing multiple tracks of a song, and sometimes with a video. Here’s my first crack at Ave Maria, the Franz Biebl arrangement.
Jean Larson interview on May 30, 2018
I asked my Mom a bunch of questions about her life and she had a lot to say. After we were done, she added, “I really liked to darn socks. The little cross stitches.” That didn’t make it into the recording.
Interview Mom 5-30-2018
Audio from Claude Warren
Deborah (Warren) Schwarz came up with some great old recordings from Grandpa Warren. Click to play the MP3 files. If you need a copy of the MP3 files let me know.
This first one is “Hopeful Aspects of Racial Conflict” by Claude Warren. Released: 1957.
\"Hopeful Aspects of Racial Conflict\" - Claude Warren
Next we have “This is my Life”.
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Dick Warren interviewed Betty in 1994.
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And finally, a 1957 interview with Paul Jones on segregation. Mr Jones was a black Birmingham parole officer for the juvenile court.
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