Is there anyone in Ellensburg who would like a free Copy Shop punch card?  It is prepaid, and has 366 copies left on it.  Whoever speaks for it first may have it...

• I MISS LAURA.
• I am finished with the hardest and most stressful recitals I had to play for at SPU!
• Cutest.  Thing.  Ever.
• David and I went on a little date tonight...we went out for Greek food and then to the SPU Gospel Concert.  It was so nice to go out with my husband...we have been so crazed with work for the last few months that we are really ( Read more... )

I have been feeling down lately, but looking at this letter from my seven year old pen pal Devin (we bonded last summer at the music camp where his parents and I taught) always makes me smile.


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You know how at the beginning of Moby Dick, the narrator talks about how when he feels like it is a damp, drizzly November in his soul and he wants to knock people's hats off, he takes to the sea to feel at peace again?  I have felt like knocking people's hats off a LOT lately, but have found that my small scale, quick fix equivalents for heading ( Read more... )

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I love The Beatles.  And I love The Beetles.

• ...that every year, I get excited about playing for NATS, and then halfway through, I beg my husband to call in a bomb threat so I don't have to finish playing for everyone.
• ...that lobster bisque is disgusting.
• ...that there are few things as satisfying as the feel of yarn under my fingers.
• ...that physical therapy doesn't work.  For me, anyway.
  
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I'm pretty sure that he knows all the words.  He's such a great kid.

I love how it looks like Ashlyn is dancing along whenever the camera is on her.

Sometimes I get really really stressed, and overwhelmed, and feel like I am going to implode any minute.  And then I listen to a little Billy Joel, and everything is cool for a few minutes.

Excerpted blatantly and totally without permission, actual or implied, from "Dave Barry is from Mars and Venus" by Dave Barry, 1997, as well as copied and pasted from some other site.

... I was invited to be a deceased person in opera. This invitation resulted from a column I wrote concerning an animal in a Denmark zoo that died from stress ( Read more... )