As many of you know, because of the uncertain school situation this year, we have been homeschooling the grand kids. I'm the history teacher at "Pop School," three mornings a week. Recently, we've been studying The French and Indian War…
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Feb 24 2021
AIN'T THERE A MAN IN THE HOUSE?
A few years ago a Nashville critic had this to say about Men in the House: “it's just a little childish from the woman's perspective since you're basically calling all the men in the place boys.” Obviously, she never met…
Read moreApr 5 2018
HEAD BANGING IN HARRISON COUNTRY
Upcoming CD Climate Change will have something for every kind of music fan, even the head bangers! Click here.

Mar 27 2018
OLD SCHOOL AMERICAN FUNK
There is a tradition in the religions and literature of the West known as katabasis. It’s from the Greek words for “down” and “go,” and it involves the hero of the story descending into hell. Odysseus consults his dead…
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Jul 12 2017
I JUST WANT TO RIDE IN A DELAHAYE 135
Time between the glory days and the golden years
She did the work of twenty able men
Sent Tommy off to school to be an engineer and
Sarah went to try out all the sins
She took to taking tea…
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May 24 2017
THE WORST SONG EVER WRITTEN
As I was writing What Kind of Music Is That?, my mind naturally ran through a juke box inventory of folk songs from the ‘50s and ‘60s: Tom Dooley, Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, Blowin’ in the Wind,…
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Mar 16 2017
WHAT KIND OF MUSIC IS THAT?
Recently some neighborhood friends who had heard we were doing this “music thing” asked me, “What kind of music is it?” I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t have an “elevator speech”* ready. I fished around, but the best I could…
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Dec 14 2016
KAREN AND I ARE NOT DIVORCED!
I just wanted to assure all of you who have listened to' Pick Your Poison' that Karen and I are not divorced, and that I have not had a blind date since the week before I met her in…
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