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Llama Llama Raparama
In the spirit of the season, I’m going to share the love. With you. Anna Dewdney was an American author/illustrator. She wrote the first Llama Llama book (Llama Llama Red Pajama) in 2005. Her Llama books address a wide range … Continue reading
Timber Target
I don’t like football. I don’t get football. At several points in my life, various males have attempted to explain the “down” system in a way that made any sense whatsoever. They failed. To me, football is the American equivalent … Continue reading
Church Camp
We meet in the church parking lot and stuff our ratty sleeping bags into the back of a rickety school bus. No one checks our bags. The bus zips out highway 55, making a brief stop in Plymouth to pick … Continue reading
Just Another Mucous Monday
The following is the product of a codeine-addled brain. Consider yourself warned. The first feature, to the tune of “I’m Still Standing,” by Elton John: Don’t you know that I’m still coughing, harder than I ever did Lookin’ … Continue reading
Hello From the Other Side – Lessons from Grammy Adele
I didn’t watch the Grammys. I never watch the Grammys. I vaguely remember doing laundry last night or dishes or something equally scintillating instead of watching the Grammys. The internet was all abuzz this morning with rumors of Adele making … Continue reading
Prince Day
Way back in April, when Prince was still alive – oh wow – Prince is dead. Remember when Prince’s plane made an emergency landing in Moline, Illinois, and a male formerly-known-as-responsive was rushed to the hospital? The He subsequently-identified-as-Prince revived, … Continue reading
Blessed Be the Tie That Binds
My maternal grandmother died in a car accident, when her brakes went out on a winding mountain road in California. Margarette Fairbank Dyson Milanese was a tiny woman, barely five feet tall, with a wavy pin-curl bob and starched white … Continue reading
MLKhaos
The annual MLK performance at my son’s school is the major all-school event of the year. The entire student body participates, even the kids who claim to hate singing. (How can anyone hate singing?) The music teacher, let’s call … Continue reading
“Renegade” – My Gateway Drug
The plaintive words transport me in time: “Oh Mama, I’m in fear for my life from the long arm of the law.”* Apple Valley, Minnesota. 1970s. Nancy was one of my best friends from birth until she moved. Her family … Continue reading
America, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Sociopaths
Target shelves Frank Sinatra next to Britney Spears. Ol’ Blue Eyes getting a posthumous eyeful. I found myself in the “pop music” section a couple weeks back, ostensibly to research a Rihanna tune. The middle school choir at the Big … Continue reading