There Was a Crooked Man (The Great Exchange)

Posted by Marjorie Ainsborough Decker text© 2010 on Feb 22nd, 2010

∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Hello Dear Blog-Nog Friends, After seeing a television news clip the other day, showing the New York Stock Exchange bedlam, I marveled at all the antics of grown men frantically exchanging – what? I wondered what these stock traders were like as little boys.  Were they the ones who could persuade the exchange of [...]

Three Kind Mice

Posted by Marjorie Ainsborough Decker text© 2010 on Feb 14th, 2010

∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Happy Valentine’s Greetings Dear Blog-Nog Friends, One of the best-known singing roundelays in the world is “Three Blind Mice.”  In spite of the lopping off of their tails by the farmer’s wife, four centuries of time and tradition have securely claimed it as a playful rhyme for little children. Many years ago, Christian Mother [...]

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