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A Few Exceptions Worth Noting
Editor's Note: I know a good number of members list "writing" as an interest. I share this piece, originally found here, from The Chicago Manual of Style. It highlights the reality that, in the hands of an expert, rules often yield to exceptions. These are eight of...
Website and Discussion
Website Discussion and Features Transition and Rework After many months of transition, our website is again back, fully functional. I’d like to now discuss some of the sections and features and benefits. When this was first created, the prime task was to offer...
10 Tips to Keep Your Brain Young
This was originally posted to the blog in IsolatedM, the website dedicated to those Mensans who are far-flung, or otherwise separated from a local group. I had occasion to review the site and (re)found this video. The speaker, herself an IsolatedM fellow Mensan, gave...
Artwork, Timothy Raines
Amazing artwork by member, Timothy Raines. I'd first met Tim over a year ago by accidentally emailing him with a similar name to a co-member of a board I was on. And what a fortuitous accident! When I'd clicked on his website, I saw an unbelievably creative artist,...
Metal Dandelion Sculpture
You may have seen this in Mensa Brainwave. I so like that email newsletter. I just read an article about a Japanese artist who loves to metal-sculpt dandelions. (My hometown actually holds an annual festival to the weed, humorously enough.) But there was something...
May 2021, RVC Newsletter
The 2021 American Mensa, Ltd. (AML) Elections are now underway, and any member who renewed prior to April 1 is eligible to vote. You should have received your ballot instructions either via email or by postal mail if you opted out of the electronic process. There...
Post-Covid Starbucks
L-R: Carol Cancilla, Don Chinnici, Elizabeth Falkner, Michael Drapkin, Keith Falkner, Marianne Gill, Linda Mason, Lynda Harris, and Priscilla Rosenthal.In our first face-to-face meeting since the pandemic, nine people attended. Beyond gratifying, it seemed to reflect...
Me and You and COVID-19
Me and You and COVID-19 By David W. Tschanz I spent thirty years as an infectious disease epidemiologist in South Carolina, Arizona and Saudi Arabia. I also write a lot lately on history and current affairs. Because of that I keep getting suggestions from my friends...
Quarantine: An Introvert’s Holiday
Thoughts, and opportunity list. A few days ago, I humorously passed along a meme, Quarantine: An Introvert’s Holiday. It rings partly true for me: I’ve been an extrovert, and I’ve been an introvert. I remember the specific foolishnesses of those periods...
Coronavirus Community Conversation
Craving contact? In these times of social distancing, we're thinking about ways for the group to stay in touch. As each one of the post-type pages at this site have the ability to comment at the bottom, we'd thought we'd dedicate a page simply to the comments and...
Persistent (or sticky) posts
A Few Exceptions Worth Noting
Editor's Note: I know a good number of members list "writing" as an interest. I share this piece, originally found here, from The Chicago Manual of Style. It highlights the reality that, in the hands of an expert, rules often yield to exceptions. These are eight of...
Website and Discussion
Website Discussion and Features Transition and Rework After many months of transition, our website is again back, fully functional. I’d like to now discuss some of the sections and features and benefits. When this was first created, the prime task was to offer...
10 Tips to Keep Your Brain Young
This was originally posted to the blog in IsolatedM, the website dedicated to those Mensans who are far-flung, or otherwise separated from a local group. I had occasion to review the site and (re)found this video. The speaker, herself an IsolatedM fellow Mensan, gave...
Artwork, Timothy Raines
Amazing artwork by member, Timothy Raines. I'd first met Tim over a year ago by accidentally emailing him with a similar name to a co-member of a board I was on. And what a fortuitous accident! When I'd clicked on his website, I saw an unbelievably creative artist,...
Metal Dandelion Sculpture
You may have seen this in Mensa Brainwave. I so like that email newsletter. I just read an article about a Japanese artist who loves to metal-sculpt dandelions. (My hometown actually holds an annual festival to the weed, humorously enough.) But there was something...
May 2021, RVC Newsletter
The 2021 American Mensa, Ltd. (AML) Elections are now underway, and any member who renewed prior to April 1 is eligible to vote. You should have received your ballot instructions either via email or by postal mail if you opted out of the electronic process. There...
Post-Covid Starbucks
L-R: Carol Cancilla, Don Chinnici, Elizabeth Falkner, Michael Drapkin, Keith Falkner, Marianne Gill, Linda Mason, Lynda Harris, and Priscilla Rosenthal.In our first face-to-face meeting since the pandemic, nine people attended. Beyond gratifying, it seemed to reflect...
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