Choice Making Along the Continuum

(Here’s a rerun of a column from September 2013. Hope you all enjoy it…)My mom recently fractured her humerus (shoulder) and her physical therapy revolves around being able to get her arm up high enough to play bass. That’s her one big goal. She may never...

Choice Making Along the Continuum

My mom recently fractured her humerus (shoulder) and her physical therapy revolves around being able to get her arm up high enough to play bass. That’s her one big goal. She may never block a volley ball spike again but she sure as heck is going to play that bass.As I...

Christmas

If you didn’t get a Christmas card from me this year please don’t be offended. Nobody did. I could blame the notoriously slow postal system from the Caymans but I think I’ll be truthful and just explain that I don’t really celebrate Christmas....

Christmas Bluegrass

Christmas time is past and gone, to adapt a phrase of Bill Monroe’s, and I hope you had some great bluegrass music over the holiday period. Music found its way into my own Christmas in some surprising ways. Our children with their families came over to...

Christmas Chestnuts

The Christmas season came early this year for our family. Thanksgiving arrived as early as it ever does and on the very next day, Black Friday, my daughter Juliet had a gig playing Christmas tunes at a shop downtown. The idea was to have live Christmas music to get...