My father was a champion debater back in high school and college. . . and one of the reasons he achieved exceptional success is that he was blessed to have the same fine partner for all those years. And there was something else that was exceptional about this team aside from their unusual longevity. And
I wasn’t looking for any more excitement this week- I’ve already got plenty, thank you very much - but some unexpected excitement managed to find me all the same. It happened tonight at about 9:45 p.m. as I was making my way back from the Racine Theater Guild to Holy Communion to rehearse with one
Carthage is performing Henry Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” this Sunday afternoon - four days from now - and stage director Corinne Ness and I were starting to feel very good about how things were coming together. And then today we were hit with a double decker dose of bad news: our Dido woke up today
It’s 11:06 - the end of a long and intense day in what is amounting to the nuttiest week of the whole year for me - and as I look across the room and see our golden retriever Ellie camped out on the couch without a care in the world, I find myself a bit
You have to hand it to Stephen Sondheim. There is probably nobody in musical theater history who has spun more gold out of such unpromising or unlikely material - and when we look back on the late 20th century, he will be regarded as one of our most innovative and courageous geniuses, who achieved compelling
Here’s a few numbers from the day . . . 4 . . . The number of large diet cokes I drank today - which according to most nutritionists is 4 too many. And on this Earth Day, I regret the hefty contribution to the landfill that I made from the day’s beverages alone. 5
Last night, for the umpteenth year in a row, I played piano for the scholarship auditions sponsored (I believe) by the Kenosha Choir Boosters. It’s a scholarship that is given to a deserving high school senior, and the award is granted on the basis of several things, including a music audition sung for the high
Kathy and I are celebrating an interesting two-week anniversary. It was two weeks ago today that Kathy and I sold my Honda and bought a second Santa Fe. What was momentous about the transaction is that, for the first time in our married lives, we do not own “his” and “hers” vehicles. They are both
It’s funny how passing the half-century mark can prompt a person to think about what is most important to them. As I look back on 50 years of life, there is no more important thread woven through it all than Singing. And I have committed to singing a faculty recital this September- my first in
Over the last couple of days I have been catching up with a high school friend with whom I have had no communication in more than thirty years. (You gotta love Facebook! What wonderful reconnections and reunions are made possible by it.) Anyway, one of the questions this friend asked me was about how I
