Seven Days in Utopia: Top Five Reasons To See It

It's farewell to Summer, permission for banks and the post office to close, the last day Southern women can legally wear white pants and shoes, and a celebration of the working class– Labor Day, ironically a day many do anything but labor. It's also a...

Music that has been somewhere…

This got me at the 2:20 mark…. Shaun Groves – Third World Symphony (Ethiopia Story) from Shaun Groves on Vimeo. Beautiful and affecting is the inspiration for Shaun Groves' new album, Third World Symphony.  No wonder the end result is equally...

Happy Independence Day!

Freedom is not free. My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy! ~ Thomas Jefferson We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil...
Best macaroni & cheese in the world

Best macaroni & cheese in the world

One of my greatest joys is serving family and friends around our dining room table.  It is the place we sit face to face or shoulder to shoulder, and connect in a way not otherwise possible.  Our dining room table is an anchor, an altar, the place we often return to...

Third World Symphony and the stalker

When I think of Shaun Groves, I always, always think of Annie Wilkes, Paul Sheldon's "rescuer" in the Stephen King novel, Misery, perhaps better remembered as Kathy Bates and James Caan in the movie adaptation of the book; which incidentally I never saw...

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