Dear All,   Did someone say Valentine’s Day?  The day of flowers and chocolates?  Well, if truth be known, flowers carry pollen, and chocolate is chockfull (so to speak) of sugar, each with its own potential peril!  Peril as a present?  Of what are you thinking (note the correct English, …

Dear All,   What was that out there in the environment?  A touch of warmth?  We can’t be sure because (and I believe I speak for all of us on this) we can’t remember what warmth feels like (not whilst outside, at any rate).  If I dig down deep into …

Dear All,   Whoa!  Is this weird or what?  This is the last January 2023 newsletter but there isn’t a single January class in it!  What is this: the Twilight Zone? (Not to be confused with the “Toilet Zone” {which is an entirely different phenomenon altogether and should probably not …

Dear All,   This week the weather shall not prevail and we will have the first full week of classes for 2023.  We are sorry that we have been unable to further the Samba class as far as we would have liked, but this Wednesday’s last Samba class will still …

Dear All,  Looks like this will be a full week of dance classes, what with tomorrow’s storm being classified as “light”.   Rain won’t stop us from coming in, so only the advent of heavy snow would account for a cancellation.  We do not anticipate it but check your e-mails before …

Dear All,    Here we are, on the eve of another blizzard.  We have been frantically digging ourselves out from these lesser storms in the all-but-futile attempt to prepare for the greater storms (like the one coming tonight {Tuesday, 1/10} and tomorrow {Wednesday 1/11}). We have no qualms about being …

Dear All,   Well, another year, another dollar.  That would make $2,023 dollars if we had been born in year 1 ad.  But, alas, as much as it sometimes feels as if we had been, we, in fact, haven’t. Let’s get the word of warning out of the way quickly. …

Dear All,   Here’s hoping all your Christmases were bright, all your Hannukkahs were happy, all your Kwanzaas were kwayzee and all of your whichever holidays you celebrate were celebratory! If you think you can manage to squeeze one more drop of joy out of 2022 (and if there is …