Friday! Singing!
I’ve written about three drafts now, all of which sound interesting and insightful and clever as I’m setting them down, all of which then sound utterly incoherent when I go back to read them over. So I’m going to cut to the chase. This Friday, the Sacred Harp group I’ve been singing with more or [...]
July 12, 2010
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Nowhere else.
The cats are wrestling behind me and my ears have a little of that post-concert jangly sensation. I’m sitting on a folding chair that reminds me, every time, that I need to build myself a better workspace, a desk instead of a folding table, a chair that’s kinder during long writing sessions. The bills are [...]
January 17, 2010
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5 Songs 500 Words
Just in case you were worried, that’s one hundred words per song, not five hundred for each. Why limit myself this way? I’ll admit it just felt like a fun exercise, but I also realized as I made my Top Five Songs of 2009 list that I found it difficult to articulate why I chose [...]
December 17, 2009
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Grace and the groove.
As I suppose we all suspected all along, the results from Dad’s PET scan last week were that he has cancer. It was spotted in several locations throughout the body, including lung, liver, and spine. Today he went in for his biopsy; when I talked to him and Mom this evening they said the doctor [...]
August 5, 2009
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