I’m sitting in a local Starbucks, and today’s Swing music mix (Dean Martin is crooning Volare, just before that was a song from Ella Fitzgerald’s Music and Moonlight), is just barely audible over the milk-steaming and repeat ordering patter at the counter. As I glance around, I feel like a sociologist discovering a new tribe.
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Starbucks Laptop Men
Posted in Books, Fathers, Masculinity, Men, Starbucks, Technology, Television on March 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Kids in Motion
Posted in Children, Music, School on January 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I helped my son’s teacher at school today, during a math test, and it was the loveliest hour I’ve had in weeks. Oh, the variations on a theme, like Pachelbel’s Canon, only in place of 3 violins and continuo basso, there were 23 bodies in motion, with accompanying paper, pencils, and plastic rulers. And contrary […]