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Archive for June, 2009

KINDERGARTEN: DONE!

On Friday Dev completed his year in kindergarten. He loved it the way we hoped he would. He does wonder why he has to go to the 1st grade – he has an “if it ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it” theory that he’s been tossing around on the situation. But he assures us [...]

MJ

We sang along.
We danced for hours, years.
We celebrated.
We competed.
We tried to frighten one another.
We moon walked, badly.
We made love.
We connected.
We laughed.
We pumped our fists.
We nodded our heads.
We fantasized.
We smiled.
We listened, loudly.
We two-stepped.
We grew up.
We played with friends.
We started [...]

‘B is for BOB’ CD GIVEAWAY!

I’ve been a Bob Marley fan since the weekend in my teens when I visited my brother at the University of Pennsylvania and discovered that he had the Reggae master’s full library on CD. I was mesmerized – it was some of the best music I’d ever heard. So when I found out that there [...]