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When I listen to a song I love, I don’t want to hear ten thousand extra notes as the singer hits ten surrounding notes for each one perfect note. I don’t want to hear jazz renditions that make me mine … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Last July, we drove over two hundred miles to bring the new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book to my three beautiful occasionally-borrowed children; Ft. Wayne was the sort-of-half-way point between my home and their home in Michigan, and … Continue reading
When I was in high school, the Beatles were big time. (Just like now, only they were all alive, and together, with no Yoko Ono, and it was all still happenin’) When the Beatles left Capitol Records and started their … Continue reading
One of my students, an older gentle man, is taking my picture with his cell phone all during the class. It’s been going on all semester. I don’t think he knows that I know what he’s doing, but what else … Continue reading
Everybody on the basketball team is trying really, really hard. Some of them are displaying amazing skills, while others aren’t quite up to the same level of competence. Some of them can hit almost every basket; others on the team … Continue reading
Chocolate cake in the oven. Little cat sitting on my mouse-hand. Husband making the universe safe for all peaceful life forms by violently gunning down evil aliens. Leftover Grecco’s pizza in refrigerator. Scraps of fabric all over the dining room … Continue reading