The Answer, My Friend Susie curls up in her Snuggly, sipping hot cocoa. Zel curls at her feet on the couch. Who knew a cat could snore so loudly! Susie glances at the clock: three a.m. Even with work early in the morning, she flips channels, fixed on live broadcasts’ numbers rolling in. Percentages climb…
Category: music
#SLS November Born: Susan Tedeschi (November 9)
While looking through lists of November born, I screeched to a halt at her. Over the last few years I’ve listened to her and Tedeschi Trucks Band more and more. I’d heard her and her husband, Derek Trucks’, names many times but knew nothing about them or their music. It was by chance, as it…
Happy Halloween!
Recently seen, a place to celebrate as a community: Critter Cove. The work that has gone into these is stunning.
Alex Pretti’s Parents Speak Out
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The Lost Ringmaster
The Lost Ringmaster Shirtless, riding across a golf courseon a red elephant, crowds turn to stareat the man with a chest that has no hair. He’s gone missing from the circus as hismount’s tetched with mad louse disease;still looking punched and fit, i.e. pleased. Within or without the ring, his fixed smirkrepresents the mien of…
#SLS — “Calypso” by John Denver
First song that comes to mind for this week’s SLS is this one. I had the album it was on. I played at playing acoustic guitar in the early 80s and bought the songbook for it. At one time I could play and sing it. There is so much to like about the song. Honoring…
#SLS — (girls) “Boys” by The Shirelles and The Beatles
“Boys” is a song written by Luther Dixon and Wes Farrell, originally recorded by the Shirelles at Bell Sound Studios in New York City and released as the B-side of their “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” single in November, 1960. The single is from their album, Tonight’s the Night. Tonight’s the Night is the debut…
