We have a national Reflections winner! My son Jonathan Morgan Petrini, an 8th-grader at George Washington Middle School, has won an Award of Excellence (2nd Place) in Music Composition at the NATIONAL level of the PTA Reflections arts contest. His classical composition for piano, “Sonata in E Major, Movement 1: The Hummingbird Sonata,” won 1st ( Read more... )

My sister Maria turned me on to this one. Take a look!



Or, if you're reading this on my Facebook page and can't click on that link, try this URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4

This is not a pirate-related video, but I couldn't let "Talk Like a Pirate Day" go by without alluding to it at least a little bit. Hence, the heading.

Instead, this is a tortoise-related video. There was supposedly a large Tortoise In Residence at the hotel where I stayed in San Antonio last week. I saw its friends and atrium-mates, the Toucans In ( Read more... )