I'd love to see a re-creation of Louis Prima & Keely Smith's act.

It is good to read of Lenze's success. I wish him all the best. I am a Michigander who came very close to teaching first grade in North Las Vegas for the 2007-2008 school year. I applied for my Nevada teaching license in the early summer, but it did not come through until the end of October. (And at that time, I calculated I would have had to apply for the license before I so much as considered teaching in Nevada.) The CCSD wanted me to come out, anyway, but it's a terribly uneasy feeling to already be broke and to begin a job, spend a couple thousand dollars moving, and commit to a lease without the necessary certification required by the state. I couldn't do it.

I had originally hoped for a similar story to Lenze's, but I'm glad to still be in Michigan, and I am pleased to be going back to college to pursue something I should be able to do in my own "backyard." I, for one, enjoy shoveling snow. It is best done with a whistle. And with springtime coming on now, I know things worked out for the best, and will continue to. I do wonder sometimes how things might have turned out in Las Vegas, though.

"Si quæris peninsulam amœnam, circumspice."