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As you may know, my husband and I have been recovering from COVID the past few weeks, having landed in the hospital. We are doing much better – moving and breathing slowly, but doing better. As I look forward to December, my heart turns to family and music.When I taught band and choir, long before …[ read more ]

What do you do when you need a lift for your heart and soul? As we move into the cooler month of November, a time of Thanksgiving, I’m turning to Handel’s “Eternal Source of Light Divine.”

Physically, I’m in the winter of life. Emotionally, spiritually, and intellectually, however, I’ve chosen to live in the spring. How about you?

  At the end of the 2021 school year, I had the privilege of talking with 6th grade social studies students. During the school year when they studied Ancient Mesopotamia, they read my middle-grade historical fiction book, The Bronze Dagger.  They were excitied to ask me questions about the writing process. One thing I encouraged …[ read more ]

Did you know, for example, that the last chorus of the song was Sousa’s way of celebrating the common American goals our flag represents, by weaving three musical themes into this section?