by Toni McNaron | May 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
I recently read an article about the famed ballerina, Natalia Osipova, and her signature role as Giselle in the story ballet of that same name. She has performed in the past with the American Ballet Theatre and, more recently, with the Royal Ballet Company in...
by Toni McNaron | May 18, 2018 | Toni's Blog, Uncategorized
For Binky perched atop a tiny ladder each holds fast to her balloon oblivious to the children, the party, the camera it’s my birthday–I’m five– just visible above the antique dining table my hair stuck into a wiry rat that itches and...
by Toni McNaron | May 14, 2018 | Toni's Blog
Every morning, unless it’s way below zero, I begin my day by walking about a mile and a half in my neighborhood. That means I meet the same people walking their dogs, the same children on the way to or standing in line to board the school bus. It also means in...
by Toni McNaron | May 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’ve loved horses since I was a very little girl. When I was about nine, I read all the black stallion books by Walter Farley. Then I asked for books about horse breeds here and in Arabia. As puberty approached, I decided to be a horse–Smokey, the horse...
by Toni McNaron | May 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
In a recent article in the Birmingham News, several white residents of Montgomery said, when asked their opinion about the newly opened National Memorial for Peace and Justice, some version of “let sleeping dogs lie.” A few even used that exact phrase. ...
