Hard lessons
I was at a concert last night where the opening act was just dreadful. The young woman, on stage by herself with an electric guitar, was so nervous that it […]
Tag Archives: music
Get On Up
This weekend I had to tell my husband that I don’t like James Brown. We decided to go to a movie the other night and he proposed the bio-pic “Get […]
Dad Music
I woke up humming the chorus from a song my Dad used to sing when he was happy – “Honeycomb won’t you be my baby, Honeycomb be my gal” – […]
Zen
I have found my perfect Zen exercise. Zumba. Zumba, if you haven’t tried it in the last five years that it has been the latest thing, is a kind of […]
La, la, la, la…lemon
Digging through the CD case that was tucked in the door of the car the other day my daughter found a CD from when she was small. It was a […]
Lawn Party
Every once in a while a song on the radio will bring up a dormant memory that catches me off guard. The other day, listening to Casey Kasem’s Flashback Top […]
Speakers
Given that the sun is shining at the moment I’m refraining from ranting about the unreasonableness of House Speaker John Boehner or how much I miss Tip O’Neill (for his […]
Evolution
No this is not a blog post about President Obama’s attempt to re-frame his “late to the party” support of Gay marriage. Although I am happy that the President publicly […]
Sheldon’s Car
I am driving my father-in-law Sheldon’s car. Not his actual car as he passed away a few years back and no longer drives, but the car that he would be […]
Countdown
As we inch ever closer to Christmas and Hanukkah I confront the age-old problem of how to conduct religious rituals without religion. I was raised Catholic, my husband was raised […]
Groundhog Day 1975 – 1979
There is an American reporter on NPR, whose name I always forget, that inexplicably speaks in a BBC cadence. He is not English, nor does he have an English accent. […]
Recessional
I decided on the perfect song to be played at my funeral – Praise You, by Fatboy Slim. I want it played as everyone is leaving said good-bye event, with […]
