1. I talked to Mom on the phone tonight and she is looking forward to my upcoming visit to Kellogg and she shared with me more stories she's heard about the name Three Toots Tavern!
2. Annabelle, one of my writing students, wrote a beautiful piece about her days as a midwife in Alaska and how her passion for this work was born.
3. My students are presenting music projects in WR 122 and Jeff played his guitar as the core of his presentation and, in about fifteen minutes walked his fellow students through a short history of rock n roll and the blues, with short riffs from artists ranging from The Ventures to Nirvana. Following Brett's presentation on "Stairway to Heaven", Jeff played us a brief reggae version of "Stairway"'s opening, helping us see how, on a word tour, the boys had been to Carribean and had origninally conceived the song as having a reggae sound. Fascinating. The whole class was fascinating. Rap. Swing. Folk. Zep. Live Guitar. And each student wrote in a way that brought each of us listening to her or his paper into the world of their music. Very gratifying.
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