About a month ago, I was at dance class, stretching out with my instructor Jessica, and she mentioned an upcoming hafla (dance party) that she wanted me to consider performing in. I have been working with Florence, my fellow intermediate class dancer, on a raqs assaya* number for a few months. Florence, however, was going to be on her honeymoon ( Read more... )

I was so busy this week with graduation that I didn't get to post about last weekend. Friday was Bobby's and my seventeenth anniversary. (We celebrate in years together, not in years married; I was fourteen and he'd just turned fifteen when we started dating ( Read more... )

As I have reported in the past, the Goldens like to howl, especially at sirens, either the town fire siren going off or emergency vehicles driving down Route 30, which is about a mile down the hill from us. I have always wanted to capture their howling because it's really funny. They get very serious about it, like someone will believe they're ( Read more... )