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It is still nippy, but we did hit 51 degrees this week.  I am sooo happy to see spring is on its way.  I miss sitting by my bubbling boulder.

I celebrated my 10th birthday on a ship on the Atlantic ocean on the way home from a stint in the Army.  My dad was a Sergeant in the 5th Army stationed in Vienna, Austria.  I had quite the summer tan, since the trip took almost two weeks.  I remember how embarrassed I was when my mother pulled my pants down to show the tan line to Auntie.  My dachshund Mickey came home by air, but the rest of the family had to take the ship.  My first glimpse of television came when my sister and I stuck our heads in a bar in Grand Central Station in New York. 

When I started fifth grade in Upsala I was getting around on crutches due to a car accident.  I was able to go up the old wooden stairs at school alright, but coming down for the very first time, I swung out on my crutches and tumbled down the stairs.  It is a wonder that I did not break my neck too.  In those days, the basketball heros at Upsala High included Dave Holmen and the Anderson boys.

This year Upsala is not in the hunt, but both the girls and boys teams from Albany are still in the playoffs, heading toward the state tournament.  The boys play number 1 Annandale tonight at St Cloud State and the girls play number 1 Providence Academy, at Williams Arena on the campus of the U of M, today at 6pm.   Go Huskies. 

Bessie, Billie and Nina: Pioneering Women in Jazz will perform tonight at the Stephen B Humphrey Theater at St. John’s University. Tickets are available at www.csbsju.edu/wow

 “The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time.  It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life.  When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else.. we are the busiest people in the world.”  Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)