by Margaret Philbrick | Mar 28, 2025 | Art, Culture, Margaret's Musings
YAY! Isn’t celebrating the piano on Saturday, March 29th better than celebrating National Pita Day? Both of these are new “named days,” but Piano Day is world-wide and the esteemed Pita Day is only national so we are going to focus on Worldwide Piano...
by Margaret Philbrick | Apr 29, 2024 | Culture, Margaret's Musings
It’s January 9, 2007. Our youngest son is skateboarding with a friend in our basement because the driveway is covered in snow. Our 13 year old daughter is in ballet class working on her pirouettes with bun head girls who will become her lifelong friends. Our high...
by Margaret Philbrick | Apr 25, 2024 | Culture
As a writing and literature teacher, herding my students into the corner of their classroom for unannounced lock-down drills, I could feel their fear. Could this happen here? We live in a small community, could this happen here? We all wonder. We know the inevitable...
by Margaret Philbrick | Aug 5, 2019 | Culture
During our Fourth of July family time, between nighttime firework explosions of “Opera Man” and “The Japanese Flower” we talked about summer reading. I well remember the days of trotting the kids off to the local library and signing them up for summer reading...
by Margaret Philbrick | Sep 11, 2018 | Culture, Uncategorized
Last May a friend who recently moved from Texas stopped me after a school concert to ask, “Why is it so crazy where we live? When I lived in Texas it wasn’t like this.” She’s right. It is crazy in our neck of the woods so here are a few strategies to combat that...
by Margaret Philbrick | May 8, 2018 | Culture
It’s easy to say with a cavalier pride in my own erudite literary interests that I have no time for and do not care about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. My typical quest continues to lead me in search of ether writing or reading the next great novel. Right now,...
