How cliché can you get? Being thankful on Thanksgiving and waxing ad nauseum about blessings, yadda, yadda, yadda… Woop-dee-doo. Let’s watch football.
Then again, I don’t have to gather firewood fearing I will be killed (or worse) by armed savages. I don’t have to rummage through the muck of a tsunami looking […]

Over the years, I have not watched 60 Minutes all that much, but after reading about and watching the remembrances of Ed Bradley via YouTube and elsewhere, I now wish I have had. Bob Schieffer has called Ed Bradley the “coolest” reporter of them all. And from watching the many tributes via YouTube […]

Oh, me, oh my, where I do I begin? Where, oh where should and shall I begin in describing what has been my chief non-musical hobby for the past six years? I might as well give you the same introduction to the Kingdom of Talossa as was given […]

Giants still walk among us. And among the pantheon of the Great Ones of jazz music, Dave Brubeck stands tall. And for the first time in twenty-or-so years, and perhaps for the last time ever, he is returning to Houston.
Saturday 2 December at Temple Beth-Yeshurun, he and […]