Colorado is a wonderful place and a state our presenters love to visit. Who would not love the beautiful scenery and great people to be found in the “Rocky Mountain State”? Mobile Ed school show performers sure do!

So we were sad a few years ago when the economic crunch prevented us from visiting this stunning place for a year or two. However, we began returning to Colorado with our school programs two years ago (much to the relief and happiness of our performers), and this year we have an entire roster of some of our very best school assemblies available to schools there.

Sports are a great and wonderful pastime! Right now we are in the middle of one of those magical times when, at least for this happy writer, the stars align and the best of all possible worlds align - The Olympics and Baseball!

It is August first, and in some parts of the country, schools are going back into session as early as next week. Can you hear the groans? And the snickers, too, from the kids whose districts have another month before they start up again. But all too soon, schools across the country will once more be in session.

Every year, when school lets out for the summer, working parents across the nation are faced with a problem. What do you do with the kids all summer, especially when both parents work?

As we march inexorably toward the first days of a new school year, many of us are faced with searching out ideas for school assemblies and shows to bolster the curriculum while providing a welcome break from class time for students and teachers alike. Moreover, in these days of rising costs and shrinking budgets, field trips are more and more a rapidly fading memory for many schools. So the search is on for the best possible use of what limited funds remain in order to provide students with the best bang for the buck.

As we approach the new school year you, and everyone else, no doubt, are scrambling to find the absolute best school assembly programs to enrich the lives of your students this year. May we, humbly, suggest one in particular?

Just a quick tip for our friends in Kentucky!

So my old car has been without a radio recently, since the original died awhile back, and I finally had a new system installed. Great to have music again! But, honestly, what I had missed was my morning dose of NPR. Well, I happily tuned in today and caught a segment relating to old films and television episodes that are stored in the Warner Brothers vaults out in California. The report went into a discussion about how many are being converted laboriously into a digital format. The process apparently is exceptionally labor intensive, with hours spent on short strips of film, ensuring the right balance of color and depth and focus is retained. But then a further discussion revealed some dissension and argument around the process and it’s affect on the original intent of the director. Mention was made of how people would react if someone decided to slap new color onto a fading Mona Lisa, for example.

It has been a while since we wrote about some of the reviews our programs receive, so here is an update!

As you may know, I married into a large Greek-American family. If you have seen the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, you will have some small idea of what I entered into! The father in that film was always remarking on the wisdom of the ancient Greeks, and though the film obviously played this for laughs, there is great truth in the notion that much of what we think today was originally thought out by the great Greek philosophers of many thousands of years ago.