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doug, my love for you is like…

Admin — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:04:16 +0000

the square root of two written as a decimal.

hello, again

Admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:00:01 +0000

So there has in fact been sewing, crafting, running, cooking and interesting things going on in our lives. BUT, I’m not feeling up to sharing, as there has also been viruses galore.

Something that made me smile:

if I could guarantee the kids would sound like this…

Admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:00:04 +0000

there would be violin lessons in their future. Instead, I think I can only muster enough enthusiasm to promise them guitar lessons.

you think this will work? music inspiration

Admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:53:35 +0000

I’ve posted before about my music lesson dilemma. Both of my children are really singy, but I’d like to get them interested in an external instrument like, say, guitar. Maybe this video will inspire them (or you?).

the agenda

Admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:56:06 +0000

While I won’t claim to have well formed career goals, and my life goals are few, I do have reasonably well defined goals for the rearing of my children. I became a parent because I wanted someone with whom to share all the coolest things in life – steam trains, warm rain puddles, s’mores, cherry tomatoes… And like all parents, I want my children to grow up happy, healthy, and polite, and to become successful. But, along the way I want to nurture in them a passion for endurance sports, a love of science and an appreciation for music and the arts. The latter is the hard one for me, having been raised by engineers who were more biased towards science, and having had little formal training in either music or the arts. Not that our household lacked creativity. Quite the contrary. But, I lacked formal training. So here we are – the kids enrolled in swimming lessons, running off to soccer, running, riding, doing science experiements, and just about ready to begin their music training, but I am at a loss. I want my children to learn to play an instrument, but when and what?

I’ve been eyeing these kid sized guitars from First Act. I think we’ll have more success in the long run if we can get the kids started playing an instrument that we find interesting, that is fun at parties and looks cool.

Must I really go the conventional route and start the kids with violins? Even in second grade, I found the screech and whine of the third graders’ untamed violins haunting. I’m not sure I can handle the learning curve. And besides, only Yo-Yo Ma makes strings cool.

I do what NPR tells me

sarah — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:01:52 +0000

There are a few companies/organizations out there that really have me figured out. They do such a good job of profiling me, identifying products of all sorts that I love, that they MUST be cheating, somehow.

NPR is one of those organizations that has our family figured out. We own many CDs because we heard them on All Songs Considered. We’ve got the NPR cookbook. My library is stacked with NPR recommendations. My anti-sweets husband even took up eating chocolate because he heard an interview with a chocolate taster on NPR.

Today’s NPR recommendation is a singer/song writer, Laura Gibson. It is coffeeshop music. Kind of makes you feel like you live in a story book where you float just arm’s distance from cotton candy clouds in your smocked dress over fields of dandelions readied for your blowing.
For those without imaginations, it is warm lazy summer packaged into music. Hear for yourself.