Some Ways Bluegrass is Like Real Life

I’ve learned a lot in my few years as a bluegrass devotee. Some of what I’ve learned has even helped me outside bluegrass, in an area that somehow I still think of as “real life.” I thought I’d assemble some of it in this short handy list, suitable for printing out...

Some Ways Bluegrass is Like Real Life

I’ve learned a lot in my few years as a bluegrass devotee. Some of what I’ve learned has even helped me outside bluegrass, in an area that somehow I still think of as “real life.” I thought I’d assemble some of it in this short handy list, suitable for printing out...

Someday

Through the pines I hear, so clearly now, A song both old and new, Carried by a gentle breeze, As it peacefully passes through. With ageless hands so tenderly, It embraces, and holds me tight, A deep breath I take and am at ease, Upon this winter night. I scan the...

Something Fishy

Something FishyJust twenty minutes ago I was awash in stress hormones while riding the painful frenzy of simultaneous deadlines (Calculus midterm! Turn in tutoring hours! Gallery essay for Art History! Mount new tires! Spanish 4 presentation!). I had already exhausted...

Something Old Something New!

Something old, Something new, Something borrowed, Something blue, And a silver sixpence in her shoe This olde English rhyme describes a tradition of what brides should wear on their wedding day. Like most rhymes similar to this one, its origins are lost in history....

Sometimes, Optimism Gets Smacked Around a Little

I’ve always been a “glass half full” kind of person. On social media, I often try to deflect the “people are awful nowadays” or “america used to be great” posts with a dose of perspective. I still feel, in general, people are wonderful way more often than not, and our...