You can count me among the most ardent fans of Disney World, despite all the reasons there apparently are for resisting its charms or dismissing its significance. The fact remains that the Walt Disney organization is second to none when it comes to creating wonderful entertainment for people of all ages and I for one
I am back from Florida, with all kinds of fun stories to share- but I need to begin on a quite poignant note. This is one of those stories about Learning What Matters. Because my transportation to and from Florida was being paid for by the Tremper High School Choir, Kathy was anxious that we
Well, I am alive and well and lonely here in Racine, but not for long. Tomorrow morning, if all goes as planned, I will be on a Northwest Airlines flight departing Milwaukee’s Mitchell Field at 6 a.m. (groan!) that will take me to Orlando, Florida - where my wife, her dad, Polly, Mark, Lorelai, and
I have a million thoughts about Easter Sunday 2009. . . but they finally came into sharp focus this evening when I called up a dear lady here in Racine named Edith. She is Jewish and a Holocaust survivor - she and her parents were extremely fortunate to escape Germany with their lives and build
On the eve of Easter, Kathy and I have had a lot of be joyful about over the last 24 hours - some things relatively trivial in the whole scheme of things, and others not so trivial: My brother Nathan had surgery earlier in the week to replace a battery in the device which has
If you don’t know the Bible (or Handel’s Messiah) then this phrase means nothing to you. . . but a lot of us know these words well. “How beautiful upon the mountain are the feet of them who preach the gospel of peace.” This Biblical passage has basically nothing to do with feet themselves -
I learned something about myself yesterday - and about the eyes through which I now view the world and the events of my life. I believe it was sometime late last weekend that Carthage’s e-mail system completely crashed. . . and I mean it was the cyber equivalent of a car crashing into a telephone
I’m pretty sure the faculty of Cambridge University has not caught up with my humble little blog, so I feel fairly certain that what I say here will not be reverberating up and down the hallways of that venerable institution. Yesterday was Palm Sunday, which for a church musician like me is a Red Letter
It was a weekend chock full of music, thanks to the Opera A La Carte gala concert Saturday night, the Carthage Palm Sunday concert this afternoon, and a voice recital nestled between those two events that was exceptionally fun. The recital was a musical theater program delivered by a gifted singer named Brianna Voss who
I was the emcee tonight for a most enjoyable event - a gala concert celebrating the fifth anniversary of a local group called Opera A La Carte, which gives young people of all ages (grade school through high school) the opportunity to perform in opera. This group is the brainchild of a local singer and
