Category: Life

I love a piano

  The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke. American author and illustrator, Al Capp, was born on this day in 1909 (died 1979).   In spite of seven or so years of lessons, I don’t really play the piano. I mean, come on, I can’t excel at …

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A Hobbitty Friday

  Today is September 22nd, the shared birthday of Bilbo Baggins and his nephew Frodo. I am reminded that I need to read the books again, including The Hobbit, and that, sometime over the coming winter months, I must watch the movies again…definitely excluding The Hobbit movies… I make no apologies. I’ve been a Tolkien …

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