Art & Culture

Lovely isolation

While winter makes for a less-than-productive-and-overstressed-me, it’s wonderful reading weather. When it comes to putting nose-to-book, I have been very productive indeed. It’s tough though, given that my sister made the mistake of showing me the wonder of a […]

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The madness of March

The last three days of March have a reputation for being stormy. Scottish folklore proposes that those three days were borrowed from April, so that March might extend his intemperate power. The Spanish story about […]

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North of Nashville

 To start with, I want to give you some perspective. I’m writing this on a Sunday morning two days removed from an annual radio event called Country Radio Seminar. It’s attended by the best and […]

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Getting to know our kids

                  Recently, poet Kwame Alexander was a guest on NPR’s Morning Edition with Rachel Martin.  Mr. Alexander brought a friend with him, Ann Marie Stephens.  Ms. Stephens is a children’s book author and first grade […]

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Limited scope

I’ve been hard-pressed to find a book that grabbed me like Red Clocks did, and despite my hopes of finding Alissa Nutting’s Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls under my parent’s tree, it did not appear. I think the […]

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The day when music died

                  Buddy Holly, born Charles Hardin Holly, singer-songwriter and record producer, widely-known for several hit tunes including “That’ll Be the Day” and “Peggy Sue,” died at age 23.                   Ritchie Valens, born Richard Steven Valenzuela, […]