Share Your Nostalgia – Round 3

A while back, I asked some blogger friends if they'd want to write a piece for my Share Your Nostalgia feature. In the past we have looked at Favorite Childhood Toy and Favorite Childhood Book. Today, we go back to Saturday mornings. This was when we sat in front of the TV with our favorite … Continue reading Share Your Nostalgia – Round 3 →

Comedy, Cartoons, and Classical Music

The Barber is 209 years old! It was on this day in 1816 that Gioachino Rossini's Barber of Seville premiered in Rome, Italy. It is considered to be one of the greatest masterpieces of comedy within music, and has been described as the opera buffa of all "opere buffe." (For those wondering what an opera … Continue reading Comedy, Cartoons, and Classical Music →

I Hope They Don’t Have to Blast!

When you work mid-nights like I do, you look forward to winter. I sleep better in the winter. The only thing that can really wake you up outside is the garbage truck or a snow plow. In the summer, however, you have kids outside playing, people weed whacking and mowing their lawn, and extremely loud … Continue reading I Hope They Don’t Have to Blast! →