A DROP OF GOLDEN SUN . . .

The storm is back. How I longed for it, and how much I want to avoid it, all at once.

But, in the calm before the storm, there is the old holiday standby, the one thing that can always, always draw me in and put a smile on my face and peace in my heart. From the early days of huddling under winter blankets with Omma and Appa while eating boiled chestnuts ... to the childish summer days of visits to the Motherland with all four maternal cousins sprawled lazily about the living room ... to the current days where nostalgia is sometimes enough to get me through the night in peace ...

There's just nothing like The Sound of Music, starring the radiant Julie Andrews and the dashing Christopher Plummer.