Today I got to go to Horse Cave’s Kentucky Repertory Theatre to see A CHRISTMAS CAROL as a field trip for the 3rd grade. The principal at Calvary had booked the trip, but she wanted me to go along since I teach drama. OMIGOSH, it was so good! I was so surprised. This was a […]

So I put on my dark green suede Christmas shoes, and then on the way into school I accidentally walked through a puddle, and about 15 minutes later one sole felt sort of flappy, and then the other one did, and then they both just fell off. So I went around all day with green […]

I never travel without my box.. . . I love “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” It was the first operetta written for television. By Menotti in 1951. I don’t remember seeing it then of course, but not that many years after. And every year after that for many years. John and I used to go […]

I kind of like Ron Paul.

I remember having an Advent wreath from a very early age. We usually got the candles at a Rosary-Altar Society bake sale or something similar. We would cut a few branches from the evergreen bushes that grew around the porch. Dad made a holder out of rabbit cage wire, and we would stand the candles […]

I had dinner with my groupies at Elvira’s on Friday night. I was late so Deb ordered my house red and a plate of ravioli for me. Yum! On Saturday I was up early enough to get some laundry done before Brendan arrived. Time to change to the flannel sheets. Jim Brown helped us work […]