Monday music, 12.28.09

We’re travelling home from Christmas in Connecticut today — and have stopped our journey in Gettysburg. It’s funny how holidays Continue reading →

Monday music, 11.30.09

Do you remember when you first went away without your children? And it seemed as if every single person you Continue reading →

Monday music, 11.23.09

It’s time for Book Fair! Do you recall the Scholastic flyers that came home in our backpacks as kids? Circling Continue reading →

Monday music, 11.2.09

Have you had the sheer and utter pleasure of reading Douglas Adams’ glorious Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? He plays Continue reading →

Monday music, 9.28.09

When you were a kid, did your Daddy make you recite poems into a tape recorder to practice your diction? Continue reading →

Happy New Year, redux

Check the date — I’ll wait. And I’m not talking Rosh Hashana (happy year 5770, anyway)! Although the Jewish High Continue reading →

blast from the past Thursday/5.28.09

1754 — the French & Indian War gets “hot” In an encounter that perhaps should not have happened, George Washington Continue reading →

fear itself….

I write from the premise that the more I read, the more informed my research becomes – or from the Continue reading →