Dear All,   Changes! But foist: Thank you all for a fabulous Practice Dance Party last Friday.  A good time was had by all and there was lots of dancing and lots of practicing going on.  The Dance Mistress provided some wonderful snacks.  Everyone got several good dances in.  Socializing …

Dear All, Here it is, folks!  After many months in the making, it is arriving at last this Friday!  The famous Fourth Friday of the Month Practice Party!  Now who (you might ask yourselves) would need to practice how to have a party?  Well Monsieur/madam/mademoiselle, you miss my meaning.   This …

Dear All,   Well, it is another one of those weeks when I find that I have nothing to say and only ten to twelve paragraphs in which to say it.  Ordinarily not a challenge for me, but today’s home agenda includes bear-proofing the garbage shed (ah, the glamorous life …

Dear All,   “Picken’ ‘em up and layin’ ‘em down” is an old phrase for dancing that comes to us from the 1930s.  An enthusiastic and amusing (if inelegant) epithet.  Certainly not applicable to the Bolero or Waltz, which are the two most elegant dances in the ballroom lexicon (or …

Dear All,   I know, I know!  We told you a couple of weeks ago that we were going to teach Salsa and Quickstep in May and here we are, two weeks later, actually in May and suddenly we are teaching the Bolero and the Waltz.  So, sue me (us).  …