Author Archives: rdavies

(sample page focusing on yard rabbit) (sample write-ups) Every year my sister-in-law passes on two scrapbooks for the previous year to my wife, me, and our grown-up kids. One is a record of her yard’s flowers and plants the previous … Continue reading →

(At his peak in 1966 with the classic Blonde on Blonde album) His early (pre-’65) songs established he was, first and foremost, a poet: (The Social Conscience/Protest Songs) Blowin’ in the Wind A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall Don’t Think Twice, … Continue reading →

No Direction Home Bob Dylan (207 mins., 2 discs) was first shown on American Masters and is now available on DVD (The American Masters DVD on Joan Baez is an excellent companion piece which illustrates well how their lives and … Continue reading →

How Sweet the Sound, as shown on PBS’s American Masters series. The truly great Joanie from her nervous knees-knocking-together early coffee house performances to her 1st album at 19 to her Queen of Folk days to her early relationship to … Continue reading →

Playing the scale Discovering possibilities. (Figuring out “Twinkle, twinkle little star”)

(Responding to the imaginative possibilities in a Richard Scarry book)

Right: Original front façade of Tory Bldg which used to open to the outdoors; stairs at far end were the narrow entrance (up to Tory). Lest we all forget: the north HUB mall bank machine scene of the tragic shooting … Continue reading →

1. It’s always important to point out what students are doing well and to praise any good work honestly. (They can spot overpraise.) The positive comments they get from teachers might be the only praise they receive in a day, … Continue reading →

Dogs being walked and kids on bikes everywhere (with or without parents).