Folks, I think the time has come to close down this here blog. I haven't posted to it since October, I don't really feel any impetus to do so, although I would like to keep writing ( Read more... )

I am not ignoring you. It's hard to type with one hand in a cast, the typing I AM doing is for work - and said work is taking up a huge, huge amount of time every day. Then, I have a role to prepare, holiday caroling music to learn, a brand-new nephew (like two weeks old) and two brand-new great-nephews (like four DAYS old). I have a few minutes to ( Read more... )

gakked from so many people I wouldn't know where to begin, but most lately houndentenor1. You have 50 dollars in your pocket, what do you do with it ( Read more... )

Manuel is a legal permanent resident of the United States of America!

I have about six really like...deep and profound entries rolling around in my head and no time to write them right now, so a meme from pondhopper is what you get. You'll get it and LIKE it ( Read more... )

http://auditioningforcollege.wordpress.com/vocal-performance/what-does-an-operatic-career-look-like/Read more... )

It is with a combination of regret and relief that I acknowledge that Spain, like New York before it, has become a place I used to live and like to visit ( Read more... )

Confirmation received that USCIS got our paperwork and the check went through yesterday. One more step toward green card for Manuel ( Read more... )

Whoever could possibly have predicted that I'd find it so hard to leave PHOENIX for three weeks...in June?

And two months, a bunch of paperwork, a huge-ass check to Homeland Security (I hated writing a check to such a fascist-sounding organization), some singin', some travelin', some bicyclin', a whole lotta cookin', one medical exam, one positive TB skin patch (Manuel, not me, and it happens a lot - doc said "oh, he was probably vaccinated for it in ( Read more... )