Dear All,   First week of Autumn, last week of September and once again I am fresh out of funny (I can hear the vast chorus of “So what’s new, Rick!?” resounding over the hills) so just a short, quick information-driven newsletter this week.  Deeper into Autumn, when the autumn …

Dear All,   And they try to tell us that rain dances don’t work!  Due to a dearth of students in last Thursday’s class (we had one student), we dedicated the night to a rain dance, doing a foxtrot so lovely that the heavens themselves began to weep. (Yes, we …

Dear All,   As the season begins to finally cool down, we find ourselves contemplating pulling out the winter linens for the bed.  If not this week, then the next.  It is supposed to get down into the thirties at night by the end of the week. Now, instead of …

Dear All, Even though the word “swelter” starts with “swel”, there is nothing swell about sweltering.  We can forlornly hope that this period of sweltering heat will be short . . . or . . . we can be proactive and traipse ourselves off to an air-conditioned environment like . …