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Want to know what's behind the merger of perhaps the world's best known jazz school, Berklee College of Music in Boston, and Boston Conservatory?
Think dance and classical guitar.
The kids and I drove to Alabama this week to visit family and friends. I was the sole driver (and adult) in the car for those 1500 round-trip miles … It was a lot of audio books, pretty much continual snacking, and — let's be honest — more DVD-watching than my crew normally gets in a month. Gotta pull out the big guns for a venture like this. But the trip was so worth it. And we fared pretty well overall.
Among the CDs we listened to was "Ramona's World," one of the half dozen or so Beverly Cleary books that my youngest two kids keep pretty much on continual repeat in their room. I must say, Ramona can be a pretty entertaining kid to follow, even for an adult (and even lo these many years after my first encountering her.) This exchange between 9-year-old Ramona and her mom struck me as I listened to it: