Field Trip: Forest Lawn Glendale Museum
For the last few years, my family (specifically my brother, his wife, my husband and I) have been taking once-a-year field trips around Los Angeles to take in some iconic… Read more »
Category: Music
Friday Book (& Other) News: Do We Still Love the Nook?
I used to make sure that every book I had out there was available on the Nook (and I still want to type that lower case but can’t make myself… Read more »
Happy September
“To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have… Read more »
Friday Potpourri: March 11
Anything I might have planned to say has been trumped by the devastating earthquake in Japan. But as I can’t really add anything new, I’ll leave that to the journalists… Read more »
Living Our Lives Out Loud
I posted a link on FB a few days ago to a video I happen to love. This is Rob Thomas, one of my favorite entertainers, and the song is… Read more »
Rock & Roll: They Don’t Call it the Hall of Fame for Nothin’
We don’t subscribe to HBO. Cable is expensive enough without piling on premium channels – we are already on the highest tier, I believe. Anyway, as luck would have it,… Read more »
Turkey, Johnny & Miley, Breaking Up Lyrics…
OMG! I was standing at the check out this morning with a basketful of stuff we forgot to get yesterday, and there it was: my favorite yearly issue of PEOPLE… Read more »
He’ll Be: Edwin McCain (And How I’m Inspired)
I am one of Pavlov’s pups when it comes to this song by Edwin McCain. “I’ll Be” (see below) and “I Could Not Ask For More” set standards for romance… Read more »
Mourning Michael Jackson
Not many years back, you couldn’t find a positive word about “Jacko” in the media. Why, then, the outpouring of love and grief, now that the King is dead? Suddenly, this once much-demonized individual is, instead, deified, mourned, and remembered for his best days instead of his worst. And that’s the point.
(Gone With) The Wind is in From Africa
Okay, that was sort of a lame title. But there’s a reason. Stay tuned. November 7th finds us celebrating the birthday of one of my favorite recording artists, songwriters, painters…… Read more »