9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for June 17, 2015
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Dear mr. phillips, what a wonderful, inspired idea to have me carve away my own time and visit your class to regale the children with what it is to be a professional musician-the endless hours of practice, the enervating travel, the inadequate rehearsals with self important conductors, the sleep deprivation. oh, the stories I could tell, and how the children would be enthralled. Ordinarily, I would be delighted. however, I seem to be coming down with a stomach virus.