I think we should get together! Lets consider this a open invite to all who want to join us...we'll have to figure out where...and when...we could even watch the parade together! hahah...

I just looked it up and yes, that's Alumni Weekend. Friday the 26th. So what if anything can we do? I'm driving over to Calumet the 3rd of July and Dave and I are staying there that week.

I'll find that poem Lori and read it again thinking of you reading it aloud before your peers.

Thanks for all the support! Patti, the poem is "The Blue Embrace." It's in my book, "In the Mood for Orange," which I think you have.

That will be nice if you can organize a mini reunion. I'll miss this one, but I hope I'll make it to another one.

June 25, I really would love to do that!

Lori, that is great! Stand up and be proud...be confident...you'll do fine!
I am so ready for school to be over this year! It'll be a long 3 weeks, I am sure! I just hope it doesn't rain most of the week, like it is predicted to....plus we have to have our classroom packed up and ready to move...again...hopefully for the last time ever! We did get to see the inside of the building the other day. Our room will be great when finished!! Can't wait....We have 4 people retiring in our building this year...our principal, guidance person, the special ed teacher and a 1st grade teacher...big retirement open house at school next week...we have to make cupcakes or cookies to bring in...anybody want to make 2 dozen cupcakes...One day next week, we go to Cavendish for a picnic at my teachers house...so it'll be a busy 3 weeks.
Anyone want to get together ....Karen will be in town June 25th week...let me know!

That's all really great news Lori. You must be very proud of Rafi. It's wonderful that you're going to take that plunge. Will you share your poem with us? How wonderful that you're going to do this. It's very brave.

Rafi's band played at a club in Hollywood on Friday night, so Avi and I went to see them. They've been busy rehearsing and recording all year, but this was their first performance in a long time. Maybe they'll get back into it now. We thought they played really well--good energy, nice beat--but something was wrong with the sound system at that place. It was hard to understand what the singer was saying or singing. But despite all that, people seemed to be having fun and I think they could tell the band was good even though the sound was bad. There were about 350 people there.

I'm feeling kind of nervous cuz I'm going to be reading one of my poems in a poetry reading next Saturday, June 6. I don't know how many people will be there. It's only 1 poem, and hopefully it will go well, but I'm still nervous! I feel like I have to make the plunge, though. It's now or never. I can't keep avoiding these things! The reading is being organized by the editor of the Sisters Singing anthology. Other L.A. poets who have poems in that anthology will be reading, too.