Liebster Award Nomination AUGUST 7, 2020 / LYNCRAIN I don’t usually do these because they WERE intended for new bloggers to help boost their readership. I’ve been blogging daily — unless I was in the hospital — for eight years with nearly… Read More ›
Music
A PHOENIX AND AN OAK LEAF: A CIGAR BOX GUITAR FOR ME
Owen wanted to give me a present. it isn’t my birthday. it’s not my anniversary. It isn’t any special day. He just wanted to get me a really great gift, better than any other he had ever give me. So… Read More ›
CIGAR BOX GUITAR MUSIC – BLUES, SLIDES, AND MORE
Everyone is curious, so I went and found music. The first one is a Muddy Waters blues number (not Muddy singing, unfortunately) and if you let it run, there’s another one right behind it that’s really great too. All the… Read More ›
SO MANY FLOWERS ARE GONE – Marilyn Armstrong
When I started writing Serendipity eight years ago, I was enthusiastic and full of energy. Undisciplined. All over the place. Writing too much, leaping from subject to subject. Angry one day, mellow the next. Ranting about the wrongs of the… Read More ›
THE SUMMER WIND
SONGS THAT CAME BLOWIN’ IN, by Rich Paschall If you visited this space last Sunday, you saw the top Summer Songs as given by the musical genius, Brian Wilson. Those may have been songs that evoked thoughts of summer for Brian,… Read More ›
CALLIOPE MUSIC
I added some calliope music for the calliope enthusiasts (I am one!) and those who have never had the pleasure of hearing a real, old-fashioned steam calliope. Enjoy! There is no music that makes me as nostalgic as a steam… Read More ›
SUMMER SONGS – RICHARD PASCHALL
The Top 10 of a Musical Genius From the time the Beach Boys hit the surf and the top of the charts in the 1960s, Brian Wilson has been considered a musical genius. His prolific songwriting propelled the careers of… Read More ›
‘CAUSE EVERYTHING’S FINE RIGHT NOW – Marilyn Armstrong
We all know that everything isn’t fine right now but this song reminds me of times when everything was fine. I hope I’m still around when they are fine again. Music triggers memory for me as nothing else can, transporting… Read More ›
THIS LAND – HOPE FOR OUR FUTURE – Marilyn Armstrong
This Land Is Your Land Words and Music by Woody Guthrie This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island; From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land… Read More ›
THE JOY OF HANGING OUT — MARILYN ARMSTRONG
Hanging out is a concept lost to modern youth, but the most fun times of my young years were spent hanging out. Too bad modern kids have lost it. I was a teenager in college. Madly in love with my first… Read More ›
CORRECTING A WRONG TURN – Marilyn Armstrong
Once upon a time, I had a job in Connecticut. My daily commute was 140 miles — each way. I only worked three days at the office and worked the other two at home. Even so, after a few months,… Read More ›
John Prine – A Musical Tribute: A serial monography, forgottenman’s ruminations
John Prine – A Musical Tribute Posted on Apr 26, 2020 – 3:26 am CDT I’ve already posted one tribute to John Prine, but I stumbled across this amazing musical tribute by Carsie Blanton that moves me deeply as well. I hope y’all… Read More ›
IT’S THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF EARTH DAY – Marilyn Armstrong
Trump is an awful man. I can’t seem to find something positive to say about him and for me, that’s unusual. I can always empathize, even with very bad people (not including one ex-husband). But not Trump. For him, I… Read More ›
AT THIS MOMENT – RICH PASCHALL
Karaoke Night, by Rich Paschall From the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, we spent a lot of time in adult drinking establishments singing various tunes to varying degrees of success. You did not have to be any good at it. You… Read More ›
2020 WON’T BE ANYONE’S FAVORITE YEAR – Marilyn Armstrong
I had a favorite year and it was 51 years ago. Hard to believe because it doesn’t feel like it was that long ago. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in July 1969. I was a new mommy. Home with… Read More ›
HELLO IN THERE:JOHN PRINE – RICH PASCHALL
A John Prine Memory, by Rich Paschall When John Prine was growing up in Maywood, Illinois, a suburb along the west side of Chicago, he helped a friend with a newspaper route. “…and I delivered to a Baptist old peoples… Read More ›
