I know the answer should be something like, “Hold it up!” or, “Stick your finger in the dike!” or, some really smart economic idea that I’d need a whiteboard to explain (If I understood it in the first place).
But my answer, in the face of the terrifying election that defines our next 4-8 years, and [...]

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I was listening to Oprah Winfrey’s channel on XM on the way home from the school run this morning (Hey! Stop judging me! We can’t all be NPR all the time.) and I heard an interview with Wynton Marsalis about his new book, “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life” . I [...]

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Miss Mary, over at Now Entering Momville! As always, winner picked by random number generator. I love an excuse to be official. Thank you guys all so much for your comments- you’ve made me want to go to a really killer concert and score a shirt. I own a lot of them right now, but [...]

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When I was about eleven, I suddenly came into my own musically. All of the years I’d spent content with my parent’s show tunes and 50’s songs were out the window, and I wanted to rock.
It started with the Rolling Stones, as so many things do. I listened to “Paint it Black” over and [...]

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