The Edith (Edie) And Gary Postiglione Scholarship in Environmental Engineering

If you could have something named after you, what would it be?

The Edith (Edie) and Gary Postiglione Scholarship in Environmental Engineering. It’s real, and creating it at the University of Minnesota was the last thing my husband of forty years and I did together before he died unexpectedly less than three weeks later… on November 1, 2022, his 75th birthday.

Having something named after me was never something I had wanted. It sounded so vain, so pretentious, so self-important… What I wanted was to do something with my life that made a difference, something to justify my existence and use of precious resources for decades.

We had planned to leave our life’s savings to various environmental and animal welfare charities, but when I realized that all the money in the world would not save the elephants in Africa if they could not get water, I wanted a smarter plan.

I was discouraged and discussing this with my therapist when she suggested an endowment for scholarships in Environmental Engineering. I thought her suggestion was brilliant, and my husband and I decided that night to do it. Two months later, it was done.

I hope the students who receive our scholarships will satisfy our real goal, which is to help save our planet, and that their names will be on awards for their wonderful discoveries and accomplishments.

https://cse.umn.edu/cege/news/postiglione-scholarship-supports-environmental-engineering-students-and-our-planet

Playing Store—Part One

Was it the manic spending of a bipolar or simply the failed plan of an unhappy creative? A memoir of how I acquired an outrageous inventory of china, tapestry fabrics, vintage beads, faux gems, glass pendants, charms, and findings that now, twenty-three years later, I am finally ready to liquidate.

When I was a child….

Wand Kit

Wand electrification kit now available!

I thought I was probably the only person crazy enough to spend ridiculous time, energy, and $$ making hand-carved/sculpted, electrified wands, but an examination of my website stats suggests that is not the case!

So, in view of that, I have: 1) finally posted a kit of necessary parts on Etsy, and 2) reviewed my instructions for usability.

To those of you who have apparently spent a great deal of time studying my instructions, if you need some clarification, please either send me an email or comment here (you should not have to register to comment) to let me know. If I get a reasonable number of responses, I’ll either add a bunch of pictures or make a YouTube video (please specify your preference).

How to Make a Lighted Magic Wand

The procedures and list of tools and supplies have not yet been system tested, but the muffliato charm (password) on the pages has been nullified.

Please let me know about any faulty procedures, missing or unnecessary tools and/or supplies, suggestions for improvement, etc.

All the best charms,
The Lighted Wand Queen