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Five Minute Glimpse: The Neighborhood Leaf Pile One Wednesday Afternoon
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Random Halloween Surfers
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…
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Pre Trick or Treat Shenanigans
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…
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What I Learned in October
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…