Moments Of Beauty
Okay, this wasn’t so much a discovery as a recommendation from a friend on Facebook, but it’s a delightful story. It’s just over six minutes, and you won’t regret one of them: Tweet
It’s getting closed to 11:00 pm. That’s not late for many of you, I realize, but I should have been heading to bed an hour ago. But I’m still up. Why? My kids have found that the local library has teamed up with a company to allow limited mp3 downloads for free every week. They [...]
Did I say there were two used book stores within a few blocks of my work? There are THREE! I found another one today while I was out walking. I thought I would just walk on by, maybe take a peek inside, but keep on going… But NNNOOOOOOOOOOO! They had to put a cart of [...]
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I spent pretty much all day Saturday with either a power tool in my hand or a phone to my ear. I had one more bookcase I had promised to build, and the company I helped start is working on a major opportunity. I felt like I was going all day. Sunday wasn’t much better, [...]
I’ve become a picky music buyer. I don’t like buying albums unless I’m fairly sure I’ll like a majority of the songs. And no, I don’t find those little 30-second previews on Amazon helpful, especially when an album doesn’t have them. I’m also averse to buying individual mp3 files. When I buy things I like [...]
Continue reading about Music Review: Nolwenn Leroy – Bretonne
Lately I’ve been doing some research on the Falkland Islands (long story I’ll perhaps tell sometime). In the process I’ve been stumbling across some interesting websites. One of those is FalklandWool.net. On the site the wife tells the story of her family’s emigrating from the U.K. to the Falklands in 1979. When I was in [...]
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There are certain songs I shouldn’t listen to. Not because they are bad songs–quite the contrary. There are just some songs that have such an impact on me that I really shouldn’t listen to them unless I have a few minutes to put myself back together again afterward. Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings is one. [...]
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about writing lately. My first draft of my novel is nearly complete, and once I finish it I will be setting it aside for a few months before diving back in for revision. The next project is to write a few short stories, the ideas for which [...]
Last night my wife and I were given a rare treat by my brother and his wife: tickets to see David Lanz and Kurt Bestor together in concert, along with free babysitting. We had excellent seats: a few rows back and center in the balcony, where we could easily see the hands of both musicians [...]
I didn’t intend to be gone from posting for so long. But I’ve been too busy living my life (and holding on tight) to have much time to write about it. Between the store, the kids’ baseball practices and games, out-of-state job interviews, and a major dollop of stress I’ve been too busy to write–or [...]