It was sixteen years ago and it felt like yesterday. I was working for Goldmine magazine, the record collector’s biweekly publication, and had been asked by my editor to come to Sharon, Pennsylvania to cover the inaugural class of the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. And that’s where I first met Tim Hauser. Tim was…
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Wishing upon a rained-out blood moon
I woke up this morning, hoping I could get at least a photograph or two of the elusive “blood moon” lunar eclipse. I drove out to the Black Bridge, where I knew I could get at least a good shot of the moon before it hit the horizon. And at about 5:25, when the clouds…
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The message of Psalms 3:16
In today’s blog post, I talk about one of the most important verses in the Bible, one that’s often overlooked. Psalms 3:16.
Read MoreWhy I’m not “Charlie” or “Charles”
I know it’s on my birth certificate. I know it’s on my driver’s license. Still, only a few people in my life – a VERY SELECT FEW PEOPLE – ever get to call me those names today. And with good reason. We do not get to pick our birth names. By the time we’re out…
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The Wings
I have a pair of pilot’s wings. In a long-ago time, airlines actually gave out little trinkets and toys to children during flights. Kids could receive little metal “junior pilot” or “junior stewardess” wings, as a souvenir of a successful flight. Today, I take these pilot’s wings from a little display shelf in my apartment,…
Read MoreBullying with the “ice bucket challenge”
So far, the ice bucket challenge – where people film themselves as they dump buckets of ice water over themselves, all to help raise money and awareness for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and a cure for same – has raised millions upon millions of dollars. Which is a good thing. Sadly, the challenge has also been…
Read MoreThe 51st Resolution
I woke up Sunday morning and put the tape around my body. I held it tight against my skin, as tightly as possible. What am I looking at? What will this tape mean? And at that moment, I thought back. Back two years ago, when I came up with the 49th Resolution. It was at…
Read MoreJustice for Aaron
I saw this video and … let me put it this way. This is beyond disgusting. From what I understand about the whole situation… I’m going to re-paste the pertinent information from this Tumblr page search. Published on Aug 14, 2014 Aaron Hill is a disabled boy in Okeechobee (Fla.) who was lured out of…
Read MoreHow we get through our life every day
A week or so ago, my daughter Cassaundra posted something on her Facebook page – it was a picture of a hoodie that was decorated to look like the main character in the film My Neighbor Totoro. You know what? Her birthday is coming up… so a few moments after she posted the picture of…
Read More“Who are you calling ‘elderly,’ Miller?”
Boy, did I step in the steaming pile. Yesterday, in my blog, I referred to a woman, who looked as if she was in her mid-50’s, as “elderly.” And what happened? I got a swift lecture by my blog readers for combining that age bracket with that term. Yeah, maybe I am thinking that someone…
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