Dear All,   Having over-burdened our reading public with several long newsletters in a row, legal counsel has recommended a short one this time to keep our reading public from running screaming into the woods.  Since the woods are far too accessible in this region (into which running whilst screaming …

Dear All, Well, we changed from the Winter sheets to the Spring sheets yesterday, in the presumption that the weather had become warm enough to indulge in that particular Springtime ritual.  As it turns out, our presumption was, in a word: presumptuous.  Day time temperatures and even evening temperatures may …

Dear All, I was putting one of my free hours to good use the other day by composing a ballroom dance parody of “Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport” (‘Tiny Kangaroo Dance Sport’ {aka The Wallaby Open Competitions in Australia) and the last verse (“Dance on my grave when I’m dead, …

Dear All,   Wow.  Here it is, the last week of March.  For a month named after so prosaic an activity as marching, it sure scampered through quickly enough.  Next year we will refer to this month as “Scamper”.  Remember this and don’t be confused. So, “final week of the …

Dear All,   It looks like we are going to be able to “Swing into Spring” this Thursday, since Thursday will be the first day of Spring (switching over at 2:01 am, giving us the whole day) and the next-to-the-last day of Swing classes (the last one being next week, …

Dear All,   Well, last week’s Samba class was a hoot!  “Hootier than the Swing class?” we hear our Thursday night students ask us, plaintively (and yes, ‘hootier’ is exactly the word they used!).  Well, no, but not for the same reasons. The Thursday night Swing class was a hoot …

Dear All,   So here we are in March, the month of Spring (which is a mere 16 {and counting [down, that is]} days away) and we cannot think of two more celebratory dances than Swing/Jive and Samba (though, with a monthly name like “March”, we should be teaching Paso …

Dear All,   Well, it looks like two of the five layers of clothing we’ve all been wearing has come off this week; it looks like a warming trend has hit us.  Perhaps by the end of this week the remaining extra two layers will come off and we will …