Today, November 12th, at eleven o'clock a.m, I am scheduled for the final recording session at "The Roost," my son Jimmy's recording studio. This will be our second audio book ... the first one being Contact Sport. This one, Reunion, has been extremely emotional since the story is, if I may use a term that…
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How Do You Say Goodbye?
Some people, maybe you, are good at very intimate and personal ways to deal with pain and dying. I am not one of those people. I respect those with the skills and abilities to share the pain and transfer grace and comfort to those in need. In my education in engineering and business, the focus…
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A Real Phantom at the Opera!
Advertisements here locally in the newspaper and on television indicated that Rossini's Barber of Seville, the last of four operas of the season by Austin Lyric Opera, was down to its final one of three performances, at a matinee on Sunday. I really was not familiar with the story, or the music by that matter,…
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Book Report: Citizens of London
Citizens of London, by Lynne Olson, is a revealing lesson in history, the sobering story of Britain's fight to hold off the Nazi war machine in World War II. The story highlights the savage hardships endured by the U.K. in general, and by the citizens of London in particular, during the brutal air attacks of…
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