In Beethoven’s Fifth, those iconic four heavy strums of “Dum, Dum, Dum, DUM” aren’t supposed to leap from the page with the first downbeat of the conductor’s wand. They come,…
Category: <span>Thoughts and Musings</span>
“Upside down…upside right.” Some days are just mixed up like that. Some things go upside down. And other things, which by all other accounts should be right side up, end…
I’m throwing clothes in bags and packing up the sunscreen to leave for vacation on Friday, but always, always, always leaving room for the books. (My parents will shake their…
It’s big girl room time. Now, those words can be read quickly, with barely a passing glance. They can be read sing-song, like traipsing through a field of daisies. Or…
When we were little, you could tell our personalities apart by our hair styles. Mine: long and straight from four years old until, well, now. Hers: Short today, long tomorrow.…
“And one does one do on the Fourteenth of July? Does one celebrate Bastille Day?” These are the opening lines from my favorite David Sedaris essay, “Jesus Shaves.” As a…