I’m pretty sure that I’ll never stop getting a charge over the fact that I live in Minnesota, hundreds and hundreds of miles from any ocean, and I still get to see surfers catching waves on a regular basis.  Of course, the wind has to be just right, but…

The amount of energy and anticipation after school was palpable.  In between people arriving home on the bus we managed to throw in a violin practice and a violin lesson and carve three more pumpkins, cook and eat supper.  Kidlets were bee-bopping around here like bugs, anticipating that once-a-year sugar…

I’ve been hearing the word “melisma” at choir rehearsals for years now, and I always pretended to know what it was.  The other day The Banana’s violin teacher mentioned “melisma,” and I finally said to myself:  This is ridiculous!  I had better figure this out once and for all.  So I simply looked…