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Jun.06.2012
June 6
THE ONE I BOUGHT
There are fairy tales I never gave credence to. Multiple bear stories don’t move me. Cats with footwear have not warranted a second thought. True love-----now that one I still buy hook, line and sinker. Work hard and true love...
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Jun.04.2012
I hardly post on the subject of music or songwriting, but after reading an article on the Beach Boys' new album (the band's 50th anniversary album and tour - - I know - - they're old as dirt, and I am too, almost, and so will you be one day, smugly smiling young folks), I dragged out Brian Wilson'...
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Jun.01.2012
It's Friday, and I've spent most of the day looking through old writing, in between practicing arpeggios, and generally avoiding the blank page....
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May.29.2012
In case you haven't heard it already, Arthel Lane Watson, known to millions of guitar players and roots music fans as Doc Watson, died today following a long illness.
image via rockymounttelegram.com
I won't attempt to re-write what's been written in the article linked below, nor to...
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May.22.2012
The Goyte song, featuring Kimbra, Someone That I Used to Know, has been added to my mental jukebox.
I'm not familiar with either of those singers except that one song. I sometimes stream KFOG on my laptop as I'm working at home and that's how I heard it. After hearing it, I wondered about the...
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May.18.2012
If a throb could understand music, then Donna Summer introduced me to it. I did not know the word orgasm, I did not know what that pleasant ache meant. It just felt like a secret waiting to happen.
Ours was a joint family. I had found a couple of nooks where I could indulge in fantasies which...
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May.14.2012
Just learned from my editor that Raggin' Jazzin' Rockin' has made the Pennsylvania School Librarian Association Top 40 Nonfiction list for 2011-2012! Here's the group's kind words about the book:
The stories behind eight American musical instruments come alive in...
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May.07.2012
I never expected to be thinking about flutes when I went to Peru, nor when I began reading Ron Rash's new novel THE COVE on the return flight. Nor did I expect, on the way to Machu Picchu, to sit next to Ulla, a beautiful Finish flautist with a doctorate from Juilliard. And when I fell in love...
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May.03.2012
Here's a true fact: I can't listen to anything while I'm working. I've certainly never understood (though sometimes I've envied) people who can work and, say, watch TV at the same time or carry on a conversation. If I tried to do that, both the conversation and whatever I was writing would come out...
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Apr.30.2012
As we remember that Osama bin Laden was killed a year ago and that the war in Afghanistan goes on, we should remember the Fall of Saigon, 1975.
I was a new military member with less than a year in service, serving at my first location after training. My thoughts were still bright with American...
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