The Boy Who Wasn't There
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Monday Night Cancer Club is a Daily Kos group focused on dealing with cancer, primarily for cancer survivors and caregivers, though clinicians, researchers, and others with a special interest are also...
View ArticleThe GOP Ticket in Seven Words
This will likely be the shortest diary I've ever written, or ever will write.Driving to my church job this morning (it's all part of being a choral musician: on Sundays I belong to Baby Jesus), I had a...
View ArticleUnderstanding Republican Thinking: It’s Easy!
Want to pierce the veil to Republican thinking? No problem!All you have to do is take equal parts of Willard’s recent post-mortem speech (AKA “I did SO mean what I said about the 47%”) and this gem of...
View ArticleA Brief Semi-Patriotic Ditty for Thanksgiving Day
If you read my profile, you'll see that I'm a conductor and composer. What I am definitely not is a poet, as the following doggerel (to be sung to tune of "Yankee Doodle") clearly confirms: Willard...
View ArticleMichigan Citizens: Clients or Members?
So I'm driving to work at Wayne State this morning for the last day of instruction for the semester, wearing a red tie to show (muted) solidarity with my labor friends, when the radio cuts to an advert...
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On this first day in February – true, this is no jive-- Peregrine Kate has reached a birthday: number fifty-five. And how did she, you ask, arrange at this point to arrive? oo, oo, oo, oo: Stayin’...
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It's Sunday evening, just past midnight. I'm back in Ann Arbor. The bags are (mostly) unpacked. The trash and recycling (it's Ann Arbor, where they have full-color glossy guides with photographs to...
View ArticleThe Boy Who Wasn't There
Imagine that you’re a twelve year old boy.Imagine that you’re a twelve year old boy and that there’s nothing you’ve ever wanted more in your entire life than to join the Boy Scout troop sponsored by...
View ArticleA Listening Assignment for MLK Day
I'm a professional musician. Like most of my colleagues, I make my living by pursuing multiple gigs: I conduct four choirs in a suburban Detroit mainline church, plus a community choir in what locals...
View ArticleMonday Night Cancer Club: On Caregiving - A Preliminary Report
Monday Night Cancer Club is a Daily Kos group focused on dealing with cancer, primarily for cancer survivors and caregivers, though clinicians, researchers, and others with a special interest are also...
View ArticleHard Times, Come Again No More
There are few certainties about life. We're born. We grow. We age. We die.If we manage to stumble into the right combination of time, parents, location, and opportunity, we learn. If we're able to...
View ArticleMonday Night Cancer Club: Setting the Agenda (for NN'12 and beyond)
Monday Night Cancer Club is a Daily Kos group focused on dealing with cancer, primarily for cancer survivors and caregivers, though clinicians, researchers, and others with a special interest are also...
View ArticleThe GOP Ticket in Seven Words
This will likely be the shortest diary I've ever written, or ever will write.Driving to my church job this morning (it's all part of being a choral musician: on Sundays I belong to Baby Jesus), I had a...
View ArticleUnderstanding Republican Thinking: It’s Easy!
Want to pierce the veil to Republican thinking? No problem!All you have to do is take equal parts of Willard’s recent post-mortem speech (AKA “I did SO mean what I said about the 47%”) and this gem of...
View ArticleA Brief Semi-Patriotic Ditty for Thanksgiving Day
If you read my profile, you'll see that I'm a conductor and composer. What I am definitely not is a poet, as the following doggerel (to be sung to tune of "Yankee Doodle") clearly confirms: Willard...
View ArticleMichigan Citizens: Clients or Members?
So I'm driving to work at Wayne State this morning for the last day of instruction for the semester, wearing a red tie to show (muted) solidarity with my labor friends, when the radio cuts to an advert...
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