It’s been a long and glorious Christmas Day, but without question my favorite moment of the day came when our niece Lorelai watched her folks open up a very very special gift - something that Kathy and I actually purchased but which very much came from Lorelai and would not have even been possible without
Amongst many musical mountaintops over the last several weeks, none lingers so warmly for me as the annual “Look for the Light” program at Holy Communion, which took place this past Sunday. What generates the headlines and the most visceral sort of excitement is the fact that real live farm animals are brought into our
It is next to impossible in words to fully convey the crazy mix of excitement and tedium, triumph and disappointment, mastery and mediocrity, & humor and pathos that are part and parcel of voice juries. I’m talking about what amounts to the semester-ending final exam for anyone taking private voice lessons. From the brand new
How is it that I can remember all the presidents in order, the full roster of the Pittsburgh Steelers who won their first Super Bowl back in the mid 70’s, and the dorm room number of my third grade student teacher (Larson Hall 309) and yet perpetually forget just how brutal this final week and
It’s a couple of days since the last echoes of the 2011 Carthage Christmas Festival died away, but the great pleasure and satisfaction for those of us who were part of it is still burning brightly. Some lingering delights. . . Oddly enough, I want to begin not with anything specifically musical- but to an
I SO wish I had brought my camera with me to church this morning, because as I sat at the grand piano up front during the children’s sermon, I had a ringside seat to a sight we see Sunday after Sunday here at Holy Communion Lutheran Church . . . Pastor Bill Grimbol, surrounded by
Life has been something of a three-ring circus for me this week, and I’m happy to have reached Friday without having fallen from the high wire or been trampled by any irritated elephants. In fact, it’s been an incredibly fun and satisfying week, even with a bump or two along the way, and I feel
