It’s hard to pass near the Big Apple without going in to explore Manhattan and catch a Broadway show. So after wrapping up our summer tour in New Jersey – yes, a summer library program in mid-September – we hopped on a train into the city for a day of New Yorking. We met up
Old Acquaintances, New Paint
April 1-30 Revisiting our roots in the Bay Area, we’ve been performing for some of our old clients, including a couple of schools in San Jose; we did two performances for them yesterday and four today. It was a bad time for Dennis to get sick, which he does only once a decade or so,
Remembering Frank
March 1-4 While we were staying in Nashville, we received a call relating some grim news: our brother-in-law Frank had suffered a severe stroke, and was unconscious. Within a few hours we received even worse news: he’d been declared brain-dead. The following day, he was taken off life support and pronounced officially dead. So
Memorable Travel Blunders
Today we’re looking back on some of the Mistakes we’ve Made Along the Way as part of the monthly Blog Carnival over at Families on the Road. One the first mistakes we made happened the night before our first East Coast performance, back in 1992. We were driving across Pennsylvania late at night when a
Nesting in Nashville
Feb. 18-28 This year, we took our annual week-long stay in a timeshare (courtesy of Kimberly’s parents) in Nashville, at a very comfy place about a mile from the Grand Ole Opry. We had a full kitchen, complete with a conventional oven, so we did a lot of baking, including lasagna, as well as enough
