Tried driving up Directors Hill in a snow storm.  It is a challenge to attempt wiith 4 wheel drive but stubborn as I am I tried it with the minivan.  I've lived to say it cannot be done.  After sliding a good 15 feet backwards I ended up sideways in the driveway on a steep hill.  All was not lost.  I cut the wheel hard and stepped on the gas a few times; first in reverse, then drive.  Somehow I ended up facing back down the hill and I was wise enough to go in the direction pointed out to me..thanks god!  Finally a 4x4 brought me up the hill and I got to our first singing practice.   CD's of our Holiday concert were passed out.  I dropped mine off to Dad this a.m.  He did not make it to the Christmas show.  Music makes him cry.  I hope it makes me cry when I'm old and fragile as a moths' wing.  That passion exists in us right to the very end is what makes us human and real.  Signing off with that thought.