Turkey Day Eve Ruminations of Thanks

Turkey Day Eve Ruminations of Thanks

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day, my favorite holiday. I know it’s become an overly commercial boondoggle and a slippery slope into the dreaded Christmas season (even Charles Dickens bemoaned the commercialism of Christmas in the 19th century!). Regardless of all that,...
You Can Dance, If You Want To

You Can Dance, If You Want To

One of the peculiar benefits of being a performing musician is I get to see a lot of people dance. There’s just no action of self-expression as pure and universal as dance.  I see little kids who can barely walk dance impulsively to live music. I have seen elderly...
If These Walls (or Fields) Could Talk

If These Walls (or Fields) Could Talk

Did you ever go back to someplace after many years away? It could be almost anywhere – a place you used to live, a restaurant you used to frequent, a lake or trailhead. It’s amazing how evocative places can suddenly remind you of things you did or how you felt, long...
New Years Through the Years

New Years Through the Years

(Full disclosure – this is a rerun of last year’s column. Complaints and legal actions should be addressed to my legal counsel at the firm of Dewey, Cheatem and Howe) This is my last Welcome Column of 2022. Traditionally, I should say something important,...