Moon River

Home from the Isar, this song still on our lips. Audrey Hepburn sang “Moon River” in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s“, the film based on the book by Truman Capote. Mercer and Mancini wrote the song for her limited vocal range — which is why we can sing it together. Hepburn plays Holly Golightly, the glittering socialite, […]

Wish upon a star

NASA’s new image-sharing website, nasaimages.org. Starlight, star bright, first star I see tonight wish I may, wish I might have the wish I wish tonight.

For the Leos

An amazing number of Leos populate my world. Family and friends, colleagues and students, this one is for you: Meet Lionel, the Lion-Faced Boy, aka Stephan Bribowski from Poland, who graced freakshows at the turn of the century. He was covered in luxurious blond hair, a condition called Hypertrichosis, which according to circus lore was […]