I can hardly believe it - but photographs don’t lie. (Unless you’re very adept with PhotoShop, which I am not.) This morning, I walked into the Sturtevant Post Office with seven padded envelops under my arm, like the one pictured above - and sent them off to seven potential music publishers. This is such a
I hate to admit this (and shudder to think of what this says about me and my values) but it’s true: when I think about the exciting and even exotic places I have visited, my most vivid memories are almost always of the best meals I had there. When I think of the beautiful and
Amidst all the joys of the season, there was also a very sobering moment that still haunts me. It was Monday morning, the 20th, and I had stopped by the church office to drop off information on the hymns and special music titles for the two Christmas Eve services, Christmas Day, and the service of
One of most memorable days of December for Kathy and me was Sunday the 12th, when we had the annual Christmas program at Holy Communion in the morning and the Sing Along Messiah that afternoon and evening. . . all in the immediate wake of a very nasty winter storm that had dumped snow all
It has been three long weeks since my last blog entry... by far the longest hiatus since I started this blog three and a half years ago ... due partly to the typical craziness of the holidays, and due as well to the lingering shock and sadness over our friend Sam’s death. Add it up
I just returned a few minutes ago from the visitation for our good friend Sam Waller.... and although I wouldn’t have thought it possible, I think I walked out of there loving the guy even more than when I walked in. First there was that throng - an amazing array of people - crowded into
I am hurting tonight, and it is two very different kinds of pain I’m feeling. First of all, I’m sitting here with a throbbing right ankle and a scraped left knee, plus various aches and pains, thanks to a fall I took earlier this evening that could have been worse. I was a little bit
