We got together over Zoom with our regular crew to play a fun little Euchre tournament over the internets last night. It was nice to see everyone, and the tournament was a great success even though we were separated in different houses and cities. As is usually the case when we get together, the soundtrack…

I really hope this doesn’t become a pattern, but we lost another music great yesterday. Bill Withers wrote and performed some of the most funky, most soulful music of the 1970’s. We all know his music even if we don’t realize it. I mean, how many of us sang “Lean on Me” at some point…

Sometimes you just need to feel like you are lounging at the beach with a cool drink in your hand with waves steadily crashing on the shore. Today is definitely one of those days with nothing but clouds and rain forecasted until Sunday here in St. Louis and COVID-19 emergency stay-at-home orders in place for…

One of my absolute favorite albums of all time is Wynton Marsalis’ “Standard Time, Vol. 3: The Resolution of Romance”. Wynton released the album in 1990 right in the middle of my high school years when I was trying to figure out how to really play trumpet. The album is immediately approachable and listenable, and…

One of my son’s school assignments yesterday was to find a song from the year they were born. Well, Beyoncé had a massive hit in 2008 called “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” so he went with that one. Things were a bit different back in 1973 as compared to 2008. The US was…

“Hands Clean” by Alanis Morissette