Music

This is what happens when you go on vacation, you kind of lose your head. Especially when vacation involves visiting you mother in the hospital for several days in a row. She is doing OK, just some of her systems are wonky after her heart…

What does "summer music" mean anyway?What are YOUR favorite summer tunes?Usually I like a mix of upbeat and mellow. Upbeat for when you are speeding along with the car window open, breeze blowing. Mellow, for when you are plopped in the grass with headphones plugged…

Happy 4th of July everyone! I have a been a bit scarce because I was back in Maryland with my mom since Wednesday. She is doing quite well, considering, although not well enough in her mind, because she is incredibly stubborn, and gee, I wonder…

I have always liked Jewel - but I have to say I never really appreciated her until I saw her live. Which happened last Friday, at the Arvada Center here in Denver, a smallish outdoor amphitheater that was perfect for Jewel to belt out her…

Thank you all for the good thoughts, and for sharing the stories about your own parents. Makes me think we're all in the same boat here. Getting old sucks all the way around, huh?The good news is my mom came through her surgery well, is…

Thanks again for keeping my mom in your thoughts. If you haven't heard, she has been having heart and lung issues - the latest is she should be having heart surgery this week. My personal opinion is she is too ornery for anything serious to…

Oh my word, y'all. Do you know how hard it is to come back from vacation and actually catch up with life? Of course you do. That is where I am right now. Plus on major steroids for lung inflammation. Thanks Puerto Rican cold! The…