Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Unlike her little brother, who despises all cameras in existence, this girl is always excited to be photographed.  She’s one spunky character, and I certainly do love her.

Someone told me many years ago the flute and clarinet embouchures conflicted.  If you played one, you wouldn’t be able to play the other as well.  While that didn’t stop me from playing both, it did take a little bit of the joy out of it for me.  It turns…

I spent so many summers attending music camp at the peace gardens.  I worked there for one (terrible summer).  Now YaYa seems to go every summer as well.  This year she worked hard to go for two weeks, and she was beyond excited to get there.  So, it seems, traveling…

We found a box of learning-to-read “Biscuit” books at the library sale a few weeks ago, and he’s taken to them like magic.  He’s working so hard, and is so proud of himself.  We read together, but he’s my first kidlet who is so determined to be a successful reader…

Last Thursday night, on the recommendation of a fellow musician and an article in the local newspaper, the three youngest kidlets and I attended an opera performance.  Our local opera company is terrific.  I love that we have a local opera company. This opera was written by two  amazing, well…

I had lots of plans for the summer solstice, and most of my plans were foiled by random, not so very important stuff that just came up.  One of my plans was to take lots and lots of pictures throughout the day.  In the end, I hardly took any pictures…

In this, my 39th year, I have been inspired to bring back the quirkiness of my personality.  I think I might have let my inner crazy become a little disguised this past decade and a half that I’ve been parenting, and I think it’s time to throw back the curtains…

Our actual time at the beach last Sunday was very, very short due to excessive lightening in the sky.  A major front filled with storms ended up splitting, half to the south and half to the north of us, keeping our city safe and dry, but I couldn’t tell what…