Dr. Clare

November 18, 2022
An orchestra performing in front of a deep red background.
November 18, 2022
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Bolero

Maurice Ravel’s song, “Bolero” is a popular classical music composition whose slow, deliberate beat might show up in the elevator music or as background music in a movie. It begins with the steady tap…tap…tap of the snare drum. Throughout the whole piece the beat never wavers. My local community orchestra […]
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October 11, 2022
Bandwidth and Scarcity blog image of cassette tape labeled Grandma's Awesome Mix Vol I
October 11, 2022
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Bandwidth and Scarcity

My 20-year-old Toyota Highlander has remarkable amenities that include an FM/AM radio, CD player AND a cassette player. One evening as I was rummaging through my purse my 4-year-old grandson spotted a cassette tape that I’d stuck in my purse to listen to on my hours long drive to his […]
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September 19, 2022
A neighborhood of houses with large trees lining the streets. It's early fall and the greens are turning to gold and the leaves are starting to fall.
September 19, 2022
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Ancestor Trees

Last year my sister and I went to a celebration of our childhood neighborhood. When we were growing up the houses there were just considered old. This event was to celebrate our old stomping grounds as a designated historic street. A neighborhood built as part of a stately development at […]
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August 18, 2022
Pass the baton image is decorative, a female hand reaches down to pull a track and field baton off of the track
August 18, 2022
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Pass the Baton

The day was finally here. Had it taken months or only weeks to gather the girls into a somewhat organized track team? Our after-school training for the one big meet against the other elementary schools seemed to stretch out for forever. Our school playground was too tight for all of […]
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