®

                      Be a Mullings Subscriber! Click here.

Back to School

Wednesday, September 4, 2002

---

SPECIAL! I Do Donahue! Read about it HERE

---

• TITLE: "Back to School" I had forgotten how this column ended until I read it again last night.

• "� Air & Space Museum �" We went there every Saturday, then rode the carousel on the Mall, then had lunch, then went home. One weekend, he had to do something with "the guys," and that was the end of that.

• "� Middle East ..." I had people in Dallas, in England, in Israel, and in various Arab countries at various times. Not only did we have to deal with all those time zones, and all those languages, but we had to deal with three different work weeks:
  Monday through Friday - Western
  Sunday through Thursday - Israeli
  Saturday through Wednesday - Arabic.

  Didn't know that, did you?

• "� Puff the Magic Dragon �" Later in the evening I would switch to songs like, "Both Sides Now" which is a Joni Mitchell song that Judy Collins sang in the hit version. And "Four Strong Winds" which is a song by a 60's folk duo named Ian & Sylvia.

  Here is my favorite stanza from Both Sides Now:

  But now it's just another show,
  you leave 'em laughing when you go.
  And if you care, don't let them know,
  don't give yourself away.

  and I could SELL that line when I was singing it.

• "...in pieno voce.." Literally, "In Full Voice."
  
  
        World War I Poster

  
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  

  
  Actual Caption: Girls stand at the entrance
  of their school in northern Afghanistan near
  the Tajik border

  Is there a better sound than children giggling on their way to school?

  (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis) ____________________________________________________________________________________