Random Quote
Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
— Mark TwainMeta
Categories
- Baby
- Baby 2
- Crazy Me
- Dahl Marathon
- Dear Livia
- Dear Marshall
- Gratitude
- Interesting words
- Learning French
- Livia Says
- Local Flora and Fauna
- Marple Marathon
- Marshall Says
- Memories
- Misheard lyrics
- Music
- My Favorite Things
- Mysteries
- Out and about
- Pandemic Days
- Puzzles
- Quotes
- Reading
- Recipes
- Rhymes
- Sunday Stories
- The Weekly Poirot
- Top 100 Children's Books
- Uncategorized
- Vonnegut Marathon
- Writing
Tags
- Baby
- bad
- birds
- books
- bugs
- cats
- childhood
- Christmas
- drink
- Fall
- family
- flowers
- food
- friends
- GLP
- holidays
- house
- images
- library
- limericks
- milestones
- money
- movies
- Music
- past
- people
- photos
- piano
- politics
- quotes
- school
- shopping
- SITY
- snow
- spring
- Time
- trees
- vacation
- violets
- walking
- weather
- wedding
- woods
- work
- yesterday
Archives
Monthly Archives: March 2024
Reading Report: 3/9/2024
Earlier this year, I wrote, “It would be great if I could manage to write at least a few lines about each book that I finish in 2024.” It was an easy thing to write but it’s not so easy … Continue reading
Posted in Reading
Leave a comment
Did Not and Will Do
I didn’t watch Biden’s State of the Union. Every moment that he’s speaking feels like a potential landmine to me. It’s bad enough that he’s likely to say things that certain people will jump all over, but what if he … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Musical Miscellany
Did you know that the famous Minuet in G wasn’t actually written by Bach? It was written by a guy named Christian Petzold. The mistaken attribution was discovered decades ago, so we all ought to have learned the truth by … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
3/2/2024
In addition to my weekly music lessons and composition assignments, I’ve been reading music theory books and websites, listening to recordings, and watching various music-related YouTube videos. I mentioned some things I’d seen online to my teacher, and he said, … Continue reading