Shameless spouse-promotion
Elaine Fine’s music on a CD.
From an old notebook
“I hear footprints!”
From an old notebook
“And he got inside and he got out. And he goes back. And the people are there now. And all the balloons come all around and all the colors.”
From an old notebook
Dialogue from the PBS children’s show Barney.
From an old notebook
Beauty and the Beast and kids.
Haiku
Silly.
HGSE music
From the Harvard Graduate School of Education diploma ceremony last week, Stephen Sondheim’s “Children Will Listen,” performed by Aditi Chakravarty, Ben Leddy, and Danielle Williams.
A new Vinegar Flies song
“Carroll County Blues.”
FSRC: annual report
Reading together: seventeen books so far.
My son the graduate student
“You don’t have to choose between rigor and joy in the classroom.”
Happy birthday, Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary celebrates her hundredth birthday today.
Things to do in Los Angeles
An incomplete list.
“White House” (Executive Branch Song)
A new song by Ben Leddy, via Flo Rida.
“What’s an Election?”
A new song from our son Ben.
Today in sardine history
Our son Ben is drawing history.
Blue and red
From my daughter’s childhood: a painting of a watercolor palette.
Ben Leddy, “Immigration”
The latest educational song from our son.
Domestic comedy
Rachel’s twelve-year-old diaristic self.
Recently updated
More Vinegar Flies.
The Vinegar Flies
Old-timey music, with our son Ben is on banjo.
Familiar phrasing
“Family and friends”: what a bland phrase.
Word of the day: zucchini
Aka courgette.
Fambly music
Rachel Raab and Ben Leddy (aka our children) perform Zach Gill’s “Beautiful Reason.” With special guests The Cicadas.
A word from the Danish
Hygge.
Ben Leddy on songs in the classroom
“This fifth-grade teacher says he has a superpower. What he reveals next will shock you.”
Lois Lilienstein (1936–2015)
Sharon, Lois & Bram cassettes were a main staple of our children’s childhoods.
Ben Leddy makes history
Boston Tea Party song, “Dump It Off.”
Ben Leddy rocks the world
Our son the musical geographer.
A joke in the traditional manner
Here is the punchline: The Autobahn.
Zippy at the Summit Diner
In years past, our family stopped for dinner there many times when schlepping eastward on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.