Song of the Day: “Racing Like a Pro,” The National

Song of the Day: Kiri Te Kanawa, “O Mio Babbino Caro”

I gave myself a reading gift this semester. I assigned E. M. Forester’s A Room With A View in my Brit lit class as the last reading of the semester along with the 1985 Merchant Ivory film. I fell in love with both in the early 1990s as a moody teen. I vividly remember blasting “O Mio Babbino Caro” from my mother’s Jeep, driving through downtown after an AP US History exam I had known in my bones I’d aced. The business guy in the car next time did not know what to do with a 17 year old playing opera at full volume.