Nobody listens to CDs anymore. My son actually said these words to me nine years ago, when we were remodeling our condo and had a contractor build us a huge entertainment cabinet which had storage for an astounding 32 custom-built shelves for compact disc storage, in addition to display shelves for our glassware collection, and… Read More End of an era
You remember that huge box of mail that I returned home to, after being on the road for nearly six weeks? The bills always get my attention first, but what I look forward to is reading all the magazines that have piled up in my absence. It was not until yesterday that I finally opened… Read More Ding, dong bell!
I guess I had never heard the word “necrology” before (I could not have used the word in a sentence!) until I took a job as a parish administrator in an Episcopal church in 2004. It refers to a list of people who have died. I couldn’t help but think back to the last time I entered… Read More Necrology
Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed 62,081 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. It’s been an especially challenging year for “Another Year of Insanity,” the blog I started… Read More Madison Square Garden?
Maybe you’ve heard that adage, “Whenever God closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.” In the movie, The Sound of Music, the Reverend Mother said it to the young postulant Maria when she found herself in love with Captain von Trapp. It turns out the quote was actually from the real Maria von Trapp in her… Read More A window opens