This is the newest member of our family below. He’s 11 months old, part Maine Coon like Dexter was. We have just been waiting to see when we were ready to get another cat and have been more actively searching for about the last month. He comes from a rescue shelter where one of the […]
The 75th Birthday Recital
I grew up playing piano since my mother was a piano and voice teacher. Music was the center of my life. Many evenings we gathered around the piano and we sang – my sister was a soprano, I was a second soprano and my mother was an alto and we sometimes sang trios and duets. […]
Retirement Thoughts
I have been pondering for some months about when to retire. I used to think that because you love your work, as I do, that you just keep doing it until your brain fizzles out and you can barely move your hands to type. It occurred to me that maybe that was not the right […]
Hunkering Down
I wonder how many readers are affected by this corona virus and in what way you are affected. We have now canceled our worship at the Colorado Springs Friends Meeting. There are generally only 12 to 20 of us because we are a small meeting but we are encouraged to take an hour on Sunday […]
Lost & Found
There is a strange thing that happens on a long trip and sometimes on a short one – things get lost in the suitcase. Sometimes they are found again (Link to Updates) – at times sometime later such as packing for the next trip and finding some little pocket or zipper or a corner where […]
The Piano Tour
Peter and I decided to come to Estonia before Latvia because my grand piano that I bought two years ago was an Estonia piano made at the piano factory here. Once we knew we could get a tour, we made the decision to spend some time in the city of Tallinn. The owner of the […]