During past visits to your mother’s elder care community, you’ve passed by this big dining room dozens of times. On occasion, you’ve eaten here, too. But never before today have you glimpsed the piano, stowed…
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Today I’m sharing an original song with you. Enjoy my home recording. LIKE THE SEA Phyllis Cole-Dai A song of blessing When the day is wide And the road is open and clear like…
Imagine that a family’s life is a tree with lots of branches extending from its trunk. Some of the branches on the tree I’ve been growing with my husband and son include “Trips,” “Celebrations,”…
One wintry day, long ago, I had the privilege of visiting with a woman I’ll call Rose. Ninety-five years old, she was recovering from a broken hip at the home of her daughter, a good…
I love music. I love to sing it, play it, compose it. I love to write about it (as I’m doing in The Singing Stick, my novel-in-progress). Most of all, I love to listen to…
Too much grief. Too much hate. The killing of Alton Sterling, the killing of Philando Castile, the police ambush in Dallas … these ongoing tragedies make clear that our nation is diseased. The disease…
I put this music montage together some years back but decided to post it today as another cry of protest against the hateful rhetoric dominating so much of the current political discourse in the United…
Good news! I’ve just released “A Mother’s Letter to TransCanada & Big Oil,” a video inspired by a conversation with Nathan, my 10-year-old son, about the Keystone XL pipeline and tar sands mining. I’m now…
Carrie Newcomer Recently I’ve discovered the music of Carrie Newcomer (www.carrienewcomer.com). I urge you to have a listen. Just go to her website, and some of her most recent music (in collaboration with Indian sarod…
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