Thanks, Jeanie, I'm doing very well. Getting married a week from tomorrow is taking up much of my time, but I'm also having time to practice, exercise, and sleep a full 8 hours!

Lizzie, I skimmed part of the above article, but got stuck on the comment that the writer's children watch 55 hours/week of television. I may be in the minority, but that's at the crux of the problem today. I am convinced that television is the great mass hypnotist- instead of having time out of school to explore, create, swing on a swing, mess with paints or books or boats, children's minds are being taken over by the thoughts of others in a far more mind-killing way than 6 hours of schooling can do.

Allison