I drove in a rush from my office miles away to read to fifth graders yesterday as part of American Education Week. I had promised some weeks ago to do this and, even though my day was packed and I thought one time of postponing my visit, I decided traveling to that school was really […]
There’s a song from the 1920’s Al Jolsen penned and sang. Al was called one of the greatest entertainers of them all. He was the first person to sing a song in talking pictures. The song, Back in Your Own Back Yard, tells about a bird that flies away, sees the world, and realizes that […]
Life Ain’t Always Beautiful is a country song that tells it like it is. It says that sometimes, life is just plain hard; it can break you down and break your heart. It’s a song about disappointment and heartbreak. I’m disappointed with some things that have been going on in the last week. There’s no […]
Many of us baby boomers grew up as children singing the song – Oh, Give me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam. This is a simple song about wishing that we could live where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play. It was dreaming we would be in a place where no […]
I’d have loved to be in the room when you were reading the title of this reflection. For the men looking at this, it may bring back old memories OR fantasies of what you have wanted to own and drive sometime before you die. For the women taking a peek at these pages, it may […]