A Lifetime of Music #5

How can life feel like it has lost all it’s meaning while at the same time be so emotional? How can you sometimes feel so hopeless and lost, but yet plan for the future? How does one worry about the lawn or money or work or the dog barking next door when everything could be snatched away in an instant? Like it has for people we used to know. How do we go on knowing it will happen to us too? And why and how, if life is so fragile, have we made it this far?  All the big questions to keep us up at night – and to write songs about – and to listen to songs about. So while the World Spins Madly On for, hopefully, our 100 Years, let’s do our best to Float On. Continue reading “A Lifetime of Music #5”

Life Keeps Updating

Things have been busy since we have been back from vacation. Work has been crazy, because I had a lot of catching up to do and I needed to meet some deadlines. The weather has been hot and I’ve been dealing with some kind of something – allergies? I don’t know. It feels like it’s been going on all summer – kind of an asthma thingy, being tired, achy – that kind of thing. Anyway, stuff has been happening, so let’s do an update. Continue reading “Life Keeps Updating”

Should we?

Life’s been moving along this summer and the struggle has been on to not have every day be the same – so that the next thing you know the summer is over with nothing memorable happening. So in the first three weeks we’ve been having a summer movie series, a summer book club, been to a concert, gone to the pool, played mini golf, had a friend over for dinner, went for walks at the beach, had 4th of July in Williamsburg, and I replace one of our bathrooms’ floor and toilet. So I guess it’s been an eventful summer so far. The last few days fate decided to take over, though, and throw some memorable curveballs at us in which we had to make a decision. Did we make the right ones? Continue reading “Should we?”

Lunch Views

I like to take photos. I’m always on the lookout for something interesting to snap or some unique angle or perspective to record. I try to get out for lunch everyday during the work week – most of the time to the gym – sometimes for a bike ride or running on the beach – and I like to get a lunch view shot when the eye demands. Here are some recent samples… Continue reading “Lunch Views”

The Kid has been Killing it lately…

My daughter has been on a roll lately, and here is my chance to give her some well earned kudos:

  • First of all, she is finishing middle school this week with awesome grades. She will be just a little bit short of straight A’s with a B+ in algebra. And this while taking two high school level classes…
  • She finished up her first year playing violin last month with the Bay Youth String Orchestra. She had to audition to get into this orchestra, played in three concerts during the year, and went to weekly rehearsals from September – May. It was quite the experience and will start up again in the fall.

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