Regular Life

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Some of you already enjoyed the Free Christmas Song Each Day that I posted a couple years [...]

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My wife is a singer. It does her soul good to be in a group making beautiful music.
Finally, after a long hiatus, she’s back in the fold (can you find her in the picture?).
Shannon auditioned for and was chosen to join a nearby civic chorus. After months of Monday-night rehearsals [...]

(Note: All pictures in this post — taken with my point-and-shoot Canon — were cropped, except one.)
On Thursday I got an e-mail from Shannon asking how much I like the Counting Crows. Apparently they were touring with Maroon 5, her favorite band, and someone listed a pair of tickets on Craigslist. She [...]

when I have it all on “tape?”
When I recorded this, I was hoping for an encore performance of “Rock Band Goin’ On,” but I got something else entirely. (edited for time)
Fake Song

Okay, so the guitar doesn’t stay in tune all that well, but it’s still pretty good for a kid’s toy.

Actual search term that led someone to this site: tips to manage 6th grade rock n roll band.
I can only imagine who typed that phrase into Google’s search form. A parent convinced that his or her child is destined to be a star, and wants to hitch a ride on the gravy train? [...]

(Note: Anybody reading “The Keys Are In It” may now proceed to Part Eight.)
Wednesday night Benjamin did something that I thought warranted sharing in the form of an audio file. When I asked him if he would like for me to share it, he said, “Yes.”
Now five years old, Ben says rock ‘n’ roll [...]

Before Monday night, I never had met a celebrity, as far as I know. I almost certainly never had met anyone known internationally.
Although I have had dreams of working in the entertainment industry in one field or another, my goal never has been to rub elbows with the famous. They are [...]

Note: Mr. B and Mrs. B have been renamed Sir B and Lady B. The other implied they were our elders.
With the flurry of activity here regarding my recent weekend of meeting online friends without getting murdered, I haven’t had a chance to mention a first Shannon and I had with Sir B [...]

How would you like it if a bar full of people knew you and your spouse as “the ’80’s-loving couple?”
It didn’t bother us. And it didn’t bother me that those college guys got my wife drunk, nor that more than one set of strangers’ breasts brushed against my back at random times throughout the [...]

What if you replaced the word “bodacious” in Nelly’s megahit “Hot in Herre?” I think I’ve found just the word.
As you might suspect after reading here, I enjoy writing. That is a symptom of my love for words, and sometimes I will adjust an entire paragraph just to use one I like. [...]