November 1, 2010

Back in Business


By somewhat popular demand (2 of my 5 readers), I'm reactivating The Davis Buzz after a 10-month hiatus. What was I doing all that time? Let's see....working, reading, cleaning, gardening, going, doing, thinking. Apparently, far too much stuff to allow me to post.


A recent article about social networking quoted a Facebook survey in which users said "once someone has had a kid, they become boring." Yikes! I don't think our little family is boring - and at least one of the cats agrees. We've got it going on! The Ducks are No. 1, and Jim is helping by attending every home game; Matt is in kindergarten and growing mentally and physically every day, it seems; cats are aging gracefully; I am freshly back from New York and editing with renewed vigor and purpose. The gutters are cleaned; the small winter garden is in; the runaway clematis was successfully trained.


And what about that trip to New York? More about that later, but the short version is that I recently completed the 10-day NEA Institute for Classical Music and Opera Criticism at Columbia University. It's made me even more interested in classical music and also made me ready to do some writing again. I've reactivated my Twitter account (read me at @DuckMel) and I'm thinking seriously about a classical-music blog of some kind. I mean, I've got five automatic readers, right?? And two of you seem to be actively interested.

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