One look in my car is all it takes for you to know that Drive Thru windows are an important part of my life.... especially when my life is crazy busy, which is pretty much always. So for me, driving and eating are about as inseparable as inhaling and exhaling, and I’m honestly not sure
I witnessed quite a fight this afternoon in the choir room at Carthage- and what made it especially upsetting was that it broke out between two students - Kristi Hamilton and Megan Mehl - who until today struck me as personable young ladies. It began with icy glares and muttered insults which quickly escalated to
Last night was Kenosha Unified’s Choral Festival. . .which even after all these years remains an awe-inspiring event for any of us privileged to be even a small part of it. Basically every high school and middle school choir performs a piece, as well as a new all-city children’s choir- and all of those songs
I was barely out of bed Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday- doing my level best to wrestle this nasty bronchitis bug to the floor, although it has proven to be a tenacious foe. I did have Kathy drive me to Tremper Thursday afternoon for a 15-minute rehearsal with her top choir on a piano-four hands piece,
Yesterday was my 51st birthday, and how did I celebrate it?By coming down with a very nasty case of bronchitis. I was already feeling so poorly over the weekend that I begged off of attending the RTG’s children’s theater production of “Sleeping Beauty” in which my wife played a fairy. . . bowed out of
I led Carthage Choir rehearsal yesterday while Dr. Garcia- Novelli was away leading the Texas All-State Choir. . . and since I’m the accompanist for the group, I’m a handy and logical choice to step in for those situations. But one of the older choir members in the room, Nick Sluss-Rodionov (a grad from several
I’d better say something right off the bat, lest anyone misunderstand the point of that headline. I love the Green Bay Packers. They are a first-class organization in every way... the consummate good guys... the team I wish every other NFL team would emulate. And I don’t just admire the team as a whole--- but
I’m not sure I can put into words what it felt like for me to spring out of bed this morning without a fifty-pound weight called “The Beggar’s Opera” hanging around my neck. Since the day after Christmas, the majority of my time and energy and focus (and fears) have been directed to Carthage’s J-Term
The last couple of days have been tough for quite a few people, thanks to the most brutal blizzard we’ve seen in twenty years. Just glance at a photo of the hundreds of cars stranded on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive and you can actually feel the pain and bitter frustration which this storm caused for
It turned out to be an amazing Day Off for the vast majority of folks in Racine and Kenosha- and for that matter, for most of the folks in this part of the country who were hit in the solar plexus by the worst blizzard around these parts in twenty years. And in the kind
