Did you ever sing in the Glee Club? I tried out in seventh grade. I thought everybody made it, until I missed the cut the following year. It was fun, to sing. Actually, my favorite song was a hit by Wayne Newton, which ironically Felice’s father wrote. You sing and there’s a certain joy, a […]

Fifty six is too young to die. I remember my mother saying people in their forties were young and my sisters and I laughed. Youth is about exuberance, a sense of invulnerability, you believe what has happened to the rest of humanity will never happen to you. If you’re lucky, you get old. But some […]

Early one mornin’ the sun was shinin’,I was layin’ in bed I was back in college. But it wasn’t the seventies. It was positively now. At first it seemed exciting. I was setting up my dorm room and then I went down to the student union. And as I began to speak to the twentysomethings, […]

One more and I’m gonna go. Isn’t that what the Stones say on "Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!"? It’s just that I heard this song on X Country today, right after "Back To Jackson" in fact, and I just fired it up, as I was reconciling my iTunes database, and it sounded so good I wanted […]