Greetings from Beautiful BC
I stumbled on this site while searching for books online. I feel like I'm years behind on all the great ideas and discussions - having two teenagers means you don't get much computer time. My "day job" is teaching piano and voice at a local music academy. I'm married to a History prof. Lately I have been on a literary journey into the world of the Alcotts, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and the Transcendental Never-Never Land of 19th century New England. I've been particularly interested in discovering if there is something that we in the modern world can still learn from those dusty philosophers. I also am reading a lot of modern Canadian authors - my favourites are Carol Shields, Alice Munro and Anne Marie Macdonald. In my down time, I have to admit to being hooked on creating historically-accurate neighbourhoods on The Sims2 Game and peopling them with my favourite authors.