I am still grading for the language classes, so I am still looking for French children’s songs. This is because the first foreign language I learned formally was French, and I did not suffer and feel resentment as the Spanish students do, but found it amusing. Even now, I find French to be an instant … More

Here is another children’s / military song, for grading. Axé.

I really am staying up all night in the office grading, more or less Occupying it. I always thought there should be speakers blasting music through the halls and now I can. I have to have campfire-type music because I am grading for Spanish 3, two sections of it, and I am behind. There is … More Primeros conjuntos tejanos

“Qui vous donne envie de vivre, qui donne envie de la suivre, jusqu’au bout, juqu’au bout.” I am looking for a Moustaki song from the same era which ends, but does not begin in Greek. It is a happy song, not a solemn song. If you know it, I want it. Axé.

If I am thinking well enough ahead I think of this, going to difficult classes or meeting with cranky authorities. Alouette, I will catch you in the end. Axé.

When this was new we named our cat after it and carved pumpkins. Now it is Hallowe’en again and we have jack-o’-lanterns again, and a jack-o’-lantern is a will-o’th’wisp and is there and then not, like the cats. Axé.