Sorry this took so long. (I know you all were anxiously waiting for the djembe of the month!) My mother came for a three-week visit the beginning of November, and my husband deployed two weeks after she left, so all of November and December are pretty much a blur for me. This is the first chance I've had to sit down and go through the two hours of class I recorded to pick out the sections I wante... More...

I forgot to take the iRiver with me to the shrine visit, but between the kids and the camera I wouldn't have had a hand to use it, anyway. Mostly it was just crowd noise, except for a bell ringing once, but during our visit a PA system started playing a recording of traditional Japanese music. What I found for background music for this show is traditional Okinawan folk/festival music, although I ... More...

In the background is a group I've just discovered (but that, of course, millions of other people have known about for years) called Afro Celt Sound System. More...

guaranteed 99.9% Iraq-free! More...

SO not the spirit of the season. All those who will be offended by blasphemy please do not view. (Seriously. I'm not trying to offend anybody.) Everybody else, this is hilarious! More...