I asked my dad to say a few words about Love for my recent faculty recital- and he surprised me when he said that he wanted to say a few words about Florence Foster Jenkins. It turns out that her story is a love story in more ways than one, as he explained beautifully.
My faculty voice recital was not only in honor of our 25th wedding anniversary- but it was also an opportunity to acknowledge 25th anniversary of the first time that Kathy and I sang with Kate Potter Barrow as Caritas. We chose to sing James Taylor's "Shower the People you love with love" because it seemed
Here is a fun moment from my most recent faculty voice recital sung on September 11, 2016- "Love Changes Everything: 400 Years of Love in Song." Since Kathy and I were to celebrate our 25th anniversary three days later, I invited her to join me for the second half of the program. We finished
With the tense stridency of tonight's first presidential debate still ringing in our ears, this seems like an ideal moment to stop and say thank you to one of the most gracious and thoughtful people ever to grace our television screens .... Charles Osgood, who for the last 23 years has been the host of
This month is replete with anniversaries for me. It was 25 years ago that I began two of the happiest and most satisfying experiences of my life: my marriage to Kathy and my teaching career at Carthage College. (It is all but impossible to imagine my life without either of these adventures.) Not quite so
From the very beginning, I was completely enthralled by the story of the valiant passengers and crew of United flight 93. It seemed like the stuff of legend - or Hollywood , but it was entirely real, entirely true. Something incredible occurred aboard that plane- although from the very beginning, it was clear that
How did you spend Sunday, September 11th, 2016 - the 15th anniversary of 9-11? I suppose a few people treated it as just another autumn day. I suspect, however, that most of us felt compelled to take at least a few moments from the day to remember what happened to all of us who were
I PROMISE that this is the last blog that I will write about our wedding.... at least until our 50th wedding anniversary rolls around. (I can imagine sighs of relief- and maybe even a few cheers- erupting at that most welcome news.) We got engaged on Friday night, April 12th- and we set our wedding
No discussion about our wedding would be complete without at least a brief mention of our photographer, who was to wedding photography what Barney Fife was to law enforcement ... or Florence Foster Jenkins to opera singing: confident, well-meaning, but ultimately a Hot Mess, as they say. I should say that our first choice
September 14, 1991, the day I married Kathy, was the happiest and most momentous days in my life. Yet it's amazing how much of that day is now lost in the muddier corners of my middle-aged mind. It doesn't help that it was a bit of a bewildering blur even at the time. Leap
