The following is an article published in The Town Messenger on December 21, 2010.Christmas. I love the word and I love the music. I love the sights, the sounds and the smells of this season. I love Christmas. I always have. What I’m not overly fond of is the insanity […]
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The following is an article published in The Town Messenger on December 14, 2010. This year, for the first time in our married life, my husband and I will not be travelling home for Christmas. That’s because earlier this year, we moved back to the Austin area. This is where […]
A friend posted a video this evening on Facebook. It is a YouTube video of the Opera Company of Philadelphia, along with over 650 other singers from 28 participating organizations, descended on a Macy’s store in Center City Philadelphia. Their purpose was to surprise the unsuspecting shoppers with a Random Act […]
Music from the Heart: Welcome To Our World by Michael W. Smith It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a month since I last posted. Needless to say the past several weeks have been crazy busy, which is why I have had little time so sit down long enough to […]
Tonight’s Music from the Heart: Josh Groban – I’ll Be Home For Christmas It’s Christmas Eve, and I’m at my brother’s house, awaiting the arrival of my nephew, Tyler, who has just been released from the hospital. He was admitted last week with a staph infection. The details aren’t important […]
What a week! I found myself several times wishing I had a few moments to sit down and gather my thoughts in such a way as to present them here, but it simply did not happen. Here’s the condensed version of my week: At the OfficeIn addition to diligently plowing […]
Tonight’s Music from the Heart: Kenny G – White Christmas It’s early December, and to celebrate the colder temperatures we are now experiencing, I played around a little with the camera this morning, donning woolly hat, gloves and scarf, all in an attempt to dress for the season.This evening I […]
It’s been ten days since my last post, and what a ten days it has been. Thanksgiving came and went, and we had a full table with friends from church who joined us for dinner. We ate too much, tried to justify it with a walk around the neighborhood, then […]
Tonight’s Music from the Heart: Rachael Lampa – Blessed With Thanksgiving being a week away, our thoughts are turned, naturally, to all the things that the holiday has come mean in our fast-paced modern culture; things like The Dinner (planning, shopping, cooking), travel, decorating, a few days off of work […]