
If you've dropped by this blog while surfing, let me clue you in. HAR is an all volunteer fund-raiser for the American Heart Association. Basically, we write a variety show loaded with local humor. About two hundred volunteers step up each year to help write, perform, wait tables, build scenery...you name it, there is a job for everyone. Years ago, a group of friends organized this awesome event, and can certainly stand tall knowing that thirty-eight years later, the solid foundation they established has grown into what it is today. Last year, we donated about $110,000.00. All of the money stays right here in Wisconsin for research and education.
This year's theme is "HAR Goes Exploring" so all the sketches revolve around that idea. Indiana Jones will no doubt show up, along with a myriad of historic explorers. I've been rehearsing four small skits, most with music, so there has been a lot of singing and dancing filling the basement of the dental clinic where we practice. Yes, we can sometime hear that zhhhh-zhhhhh-zzzhhhh from the drill, and then everyone sings a little louder or tap dances a little faster. All in all, it's good fun, for a great cause.

What am I reading? Nothing. I'm waffling between Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock, and The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt.
I flipped though a little coffee table book called I'll Wait in the Car...charming pictures of dogs waiting for their masters!