I’ve been saving these goodies up for you…yep…just for you. How ’bout let’s start with the munchies, because, well, you know, if we don’t, we’ll get kinda cranky. Grrr…. Cue French café music. You have to try the Crème Brûlée French Toasts on Smitten Kitchen. They are…mmm…hold on a minute…another bite…let’s see, what was I saying, […]
Music Introductions
The sheer joy that new music brings! Liliana said this morning, on the way to school (we were listening to the first song of Vivaldi’s Gloria), “Mom, this makes me so happy!” I had known about Jonathan Meiburg’s start in Okkervil River, but I hadn’t known about his side project, Shearwater. [Thanks, Kory!] Oh, I […]
Brahms & Vivaldi
As I was driving home from Dr. Kenneth Miller’s talk up in St. Paul on Wednesday night, I listened to Brahms’ German Requiem. Having the almost-full moon peer down at me through my sunroof, it was an exuberant soul experience, let me tell you. It does the same thing to me that Vivaldi’s “Gloria in […]