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I love teaching piano. I currently have three students in various stages of learning piano (and more asking for lessons... but, on a wise friend's advice I've set my limit at three for now). They are all working pretty hard and eager to learn whatever I can teach them as quickly as I can teach… Continue reading Teacher-schmeacher…

So I'm pretty unabashedly, undeniably type A. I like things in nice neat piles, I like to organize and delegate ad nauseum, I know where everything goes (even though it's not always put there, it all has a place), I stay busy and get things done quickly and well, I keep track of every last… Continue reading A+B=Blaaaaaaahhhh!!!

Today I was driving through Great Barrington, a cute New England large-ish town, waiting for someone to finish a doctor's appointment. I got myself an icecream cone that was dribbling down my fingers by the time I got to the car because of the heat. I climbed back in the car and turned on the… Continue reading Tribute to Bearded Vet: Now That’s Living!

And I chose... shut up. Thus, I will tell you all about it. I was training for a marathon (26.2 miles) and was really excited about the training schedule I had and about the duration of my motivation -- I was on schedule for almost 6 months. Then I tried to cure my aching arches… Continue reading Put up or shut up

Here is a wikipedia article on contra dancing... I'm excited that I might actually get to my first contradance in months tonight -- I'm experiencing contra-withdrawal, I think, typically indicated by feet that won't stop moving and a desire to put on a flowy skirt and do a gypsy. =)

I seem to like acronymns lately... So I'm preparing for the GRE and finding that my vocabulary isn't as large as I would like to to be... or as large as ETS would like it to be, perhaps is more accurate. Who ever uses words like "multifarious" and "stygian" and "meretricious" and "opprobriate"? I suppose… Continue reading GRE for me

What five things in my life do I take for granted? 1) Having full use of my hands -- I have always found hands fascinating and recently I've noticed how many things I wouldn't be able to do without them. Piano / organ / guitar, crocheting, typing, writing, back rubs,.... 2) Farm fresh food --… Continue reading Meme 2

Five reasons I blog: 1) Friends and family asked me to keep in touch, and I am notoriously bad at writing letters and returning phone calls and e-mails. 2) I don't often massage my ego in such a direct way -- but I find blogging to be, in some ways, refreshingly narcissistic. 3) I fancy… Continue reading Meme 1

I've lost from my mind some of the things I was going to say about this, but perhaps that simply means that what I've got left in my gray matter is what's really important to say. From where I'm sitting, it looks like my denomination is dying. I love the Church of the Brethren dearly,… Continue reading NYAC and CoB

I love the Catholic Church. I have spent the last year plus going regularly to mass and soaking up everything I could about the Church and its beliefs and practices. And, overall, I appreciate it very much and am in awe of most of what it teaches, professes, and lives. And I have learned that… Continue reading Clarification: