by Judy Handley | Oct 3, 2025 | 2025 Sailing Logs |
2025 Life Logs, Day 276: We the People Class and Shadow’s Day with the Groomer
Date: Friday, October 3, 2025
Weather: Sunny, Warming a Bit; High Temp 66, Low 55 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
This morning was the second meeting of this fall’s “We the People” class based on the book by that same name by Erwin Chemerinsky. I appreciate the time focused on our Constitution that is deep trouble right now. Before the 10:30 am class, I took Shadow to Pampered Paws for his every other month grooming appointment. My afternoon time was split between my Board of Library of Trustees treasurer’s duties and nonviolent resistance film series duties before making the trip back up to Pampered Paws, which is near the Bourne Bridge, to pick up my handsome little Shadow. He is back to full energy level. Whatever was wrong with him, has faded away. I can even play fetch with him again. And then, I took the night off. I caught up on news and watched some recorded Colbert and Kimmel shows from this past week.
by Judy Handley | Oct 2, 2025 | 2025 Sailing Logs |
2025 Life Logs, Day 275: Originalism, Whaling, and Dinner with a Friend
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2025
Weather: Mostly Sunny and Still Cool; High Temp 60, Low 43 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
I had no meetings today. Woohoo!!! I spent most of the morning reading an article for the class I am taking on Friday mornings. The class is based on a study of the book, We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century by Erwin Chemerinsky. For this week’s class, in addition to a chapter from the book, we also had to read an article published in the Atlantic written by Jill Lepore, “How Originalism Killed the Constitution.” Really good article dated September 10, 2025.
Later in the afternoon I went to the Museums on the Green for a lecture on Whaling in Falmouth. The speaker was the husband of one of the women I am working with on the film series committee. It was an interesting presentation on whaling in general, and about the whaling boats that were built in Falmouth and those with captains from our town. Then tonight I went out to dinner with a friend. I rarely go out to dinner, but it was a wonderful evening of good food and conversation. I love Shadow, but our conversations always seem to be one-sided!
by Judy Handley | Oct 1, 2025 | 2025 Sailing Logs |
2025 Life Logs, Day 274: October 1 Feels Like Fall
Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Weather: Partly Sunny and Windy. Cooler; High Temp 60, Low 48 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
The first day of October felt like fall. It was windy and cool, ending with a string of wonderfully warm fall days. We have one more cool day then it is supposed to warm up a bit again. But whether the days are in the 70’s or the 60’s, we are having spectacular fall weather. I had another day of meetings and trainings. The good thing is that I am learning a lot and meeting lots of new people.
by Judy Handley | Sep 30, 2025 | 2025 Sailing Logs |
2025 Life Logs, Day 273: Happy 50th Birthday to Heather
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Weather: Sunny; High Temp 72, Low 53 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
After a walk with Shadow and Archie this morning, I spent my day focused on getting ready for Heather’s 50th birthday dinner tonight. My head is still reeling from the realization that one of my ‘babies’ is now 50 years old. Fifty years sounds like such very long time, but those 50 years have passed by so quickly. I took time to look back through some of the photos of Heather over the years and decided that my very favorites were one when she won a sled dog race when she was just two years old and the other was when she picked a zucchini that was almost bigger than she was … and she looked so very serious.
That was Heather. She was a delightful child, fun loving while always being so focused and serious. To this day, she continues to amaze me with her energy and insight, and her dedication to her family. She somehow manages to balance work, community engagement, family, and still has time to enjoy the things she loves most. I was so happy that she got to take three of her good friends sailing on Ardenna on Sunday as part of her birthday present to herself.
This afternoon I baked a double decker version of one of her favorite cakes, a flourless chocolate decadence with chocolate ganache icing. Making one of those cakes takes up the better part of the afternoon, and making two of them took even more time. I also bought a wooden base at Michaels, drilled 50 holes in it, and placed 50 candles in those holes. I wanted to make sure she had a chance to make 50 wishes and blow out all of those candles!
Happy Birthday, Heather. May the next 50 years be as amazing as the first 50.
by Judy Handley | Sep 29, 2025 | 2025 Sailing Logs |
2025 Life Logs, Day 272: First Indivisible Falmouth Public Meeting
Date: Monday, September 29, 2025
Weather: Partly Sunny; High Temp 75, Low 57 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
My day started a little differently than planned. Olivia White sent a text early morning to ask if I could take her to Hyannis for an important dental appointment. Her husband, Terry, wasn’t feeling up to driving, so I took Shadow for a quick walk, picked up Oliva, and off to Hyannis we went. The appointment took less time than expected, so we were back in Falmouth by noon. I then turned my attention to preparing for our very first Indivisible Falmouth meeting. I went to the library to pick up the key since the library would be closed before our meeting time. And while there, I got some pointers on using the technology in the Hermann Room. Unfortunately, the room was in use, so I went home and got things ready so I would return to the library at 5 pm to get the technology. The meeting wasn’t until 6:30, but it was a good thing I arrived early. My computer would not work with their system, so I had to make some last minute changes and use their computer.
Jim Newman, the head of Indivisible Falmouth, also arrived early to set up the room. He set up over 50 chairs which I thought was too ambitious. I didn’t think we would get that many people. But we did! We had a good meeting with people sharing lots of ideas for going forward with us.
