I’ve often thought that I’d like to learn how to play violin as beautifully as my uncle could.  But my parents made me take piano lessons instead.  Well, I have no room in my house for a piano, but I would have had room for a violin!  There is a website www.videoviolinlessons.com that sells a DVD set [...]

Music is in our family’s heritage.  Every holiday we would gather the extended family of aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, and have a big buffet meal; everyone brought something to eat as a contribution.  We would visit for a while and then the instruments would come out and the party would really begin!  My relatives would [...]

This past weekend I had a short visit with my next door neighbor.  My Internet service was down most of Saturday and I really needed to check my email.  I called my neighbor and asked if her Internet service was working and she said yes, come on over.  So I went over to check my [...]

I was disappointed recently at work to discover that there is no lost and found department.  I have had kids leave things on my school bus that they did not mark with their name or address and I have no way of knowing who it belongs to.  Since I am a substitute driver I am [...]

We love to use room temperature butter in our family.  Ever since I can remember we always had our butter dish on our kitchen counter to keep the butter soft and spreadable.  The only problem with that was that the butter spoils quickly that way!  I just found out about a special low-tech Butter Bell butter dish that [...]