Beethoven’s 5th, Nat King Cole and Other Secret Weapons

I am strong, tough and ready around the clock. Not only that I closely guard my emotions at all times, trying to remain calm in the face of adversity, when others panic.  I like to kick ass and take no prisoners when I need to.  Or maybe that’s not true anymore and I’ve become a softy. There have only been two times in my life it has happened, no, I am wrong, maybe three times, I guess. Once, w Read More

My Late Friend: Did You Hear my Prayer That Day?

Back then, I was in seventh grade in Junior High School, although I think now they call them Middle Schools, apparently because it suddenly became demeaning to students to call them Junior I guess.  Whatever the reason, no matter what the school was called, I was a typical 7th grader in a public school: naïve, selfish in many ways, awkward around girls, liked to play the trumpet and also play flag football at l Read More