Yesterday, I felt different. Happier and more optimistic, for whatever reason. I don’t really know why. I do know that music can sometimes make that difference for me; the difference between being glum or being happy. I went to run a few errands early in the afternoon. I tried on Saturday but Target was so…
It’s a three hour drive from our home to our cabin. The music selections get stale as we travel through some of the smaller communities and back roads. It’s not that we loose reception, just that it all sounds the same after a while. Before we left yesterday for a trip to the cabin. I…
“Country roads take me home, to a place I belong.” (John Denver, 1974???) To a cabin by a small lake, where toads run and blue gill swim, going there is never wrong. “What are we doing in love?” (Kenny Rogers and Dottie West, 1981) Going to meet my love, my love who I’ve missed. Soon…
Today is one of my favorite holidays because it is like me – somewhat serious than most! The music speaks to my soul and can shake me to my emotional core. I can listen to those marches, medlies, and hymns over and over and over. And, I do, usually every year! Those that voluntarily defend…
My Carpenter album collection is something I am not sure I’ll ever part with. Right now, it is at our cabin where we have a Crosby LP Album player, along with some other 1970’s pop music albums. It’s not a collection that I’ve added to over the years, or even played each year over the…
Much of our Thanksgiving break has given way to creativity. Our youngest, an artist by self-proclamation and pubic opinion, held a Harry Styles give away via Instagram. He had 1,600 people tag this celebrity in hopes to win a drawing of him that our son completed a few days ago. He moved on to a…
Last night I got to see a performer whose music I have enjoyed my entire adult life. My oldest son and I saw Vince Gill at Stephens Auditorium in Ames, Iowa. We’ve been going to shows together for several years now as he enjoys music and theater as much or possibly more than I do….
A couple of weeks ago I was enjoying the last of my free 3 months of Sirius satellite radio by listening to 70’s on 7. I enjoy this music as it takes me back to the days of being a young, carefree child. Sometimes this station plays the same songs over and over but today’s…
My son was the Cat – The Cat in the Hat! This shy timid boy, sang and danced the stage for musical theater became his bag. Thing One and Thing Two turned out to be cool, friends of son three who was never a fool. To be in a musical for all to see, springing…
I should be beading some jewelry. But, instead I am writing this post. On my way to work today, I heard Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder on the radio. It is one of my favorite pieces from this talented singer/songwriter. Immediately, I started singing along and shaking my head, certain to look like a mad…