November 18, 2022

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 […]
October 11, 2022

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 […]
September 19, 2022

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 […]
August 18, 2022

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 […]