The 11th grade yearbook was dedicated to Mr. Schultz. I have good recollections of his perennial presence at the school during regular maintenance and special events like the senior play. Does anyone have any specific stories they would like to share? I always remembered that we graduated with 28 people, but maxed out at 34. … Continue reading Journey to a High School Reunion — 11th Grade →

My wife (complementary relationship) reposted a blog by TXRed on her blog yesterday about the updating of hymns and hymn texts/lyrics. I made some comments there more specific to the hymns themselves. Here, I want to link this all back to another post I made back in April about symmetrical vs. complementary. I think a lot … Continue reading The Voice of The Serpent (?) — Edit Those Hymn Lyrics →

    1982 - Tenth Grade.  The seniors that year were 7th graders the year TTBHS was created. They were the first class to go all the way through the high school. Thus the yearbook was dedicated to their class. The yearbook was also done In Appreciation of Mr. Wyse. "from directing choir and the … Continue reading Journey to a High School Reunion — Tenth Grade →

I submitted the below review to the Barnes and Noble website yesterday. It went up without a hitch. Which surprised me after the couple of weeks I have been wrangling with them about the review of Pixie Noir that I have posted but that no one can see (at least my wife can't see it … Continue reading Witchfinder review hits Barnes & Noble →

The. family was at Worlds of Fun today at opening. The lot wasn't exceptionally full. We passed the Spinning Dragons -- still being tested and not open. Went to the Patriot -- not open and no estimate of when.  Just beyond that was the Steel Hawk, the new ride of the season. We had seen … Continue reading Memorial Day at Worlds of Fun →

It  wasn't a scheduled event, but today the parents of our organist came to visit him from Utah, the mother of our music director was also there, along with the parents of his fiance. David and Colleen Bott, parents of Seth Bott, organist, were there, along with Aaron Redburn's mom and Shannon Lowe's parents (If … Continue reading Musician Parent Sunday at AUMC →

With this post I am halfway through this intermittent series.  This is a series about my one solo concert, and the 12 songs I performed. This is song number six.  I had six songs in the first half, six songs in the second half. The first half of the concert were all songs by Michael … Continue reading A Concert of Sacred Metaphors — Job →

Is it crazy to decide to do a triathlon without training for it? I mean, Just 4 weeks ago I got drafted into participating in my first 5K. My company needed someone in my age bracket/gender to compete in the Kansas City Corporate Challenge 5K. So without any practice besides the weight lifting and swimming … Continue reading From 5k to Triathlon →

As the fifth in the intermittent blogs about my one solo concert, this blog features song number five from the concert. Valley of Dry Bones. This is the Ezekiel passage, where he sees the dry bones come to life.  I is quite a neat setting. Interesting to contrast it to the Negro Spiritual, which uses … Continue reading A Concert of Sacred Metaphors — Bones →

Following up to yesterday's blog, this is the processed video -- first section. Nathan leads off, and can be heard again at 9:31 doing the Henry VIII I Am . See the link here. The latter is in a fun section that includes the Ballad of Davy Crockett and a song from the Chipmunks. The … Continue reading More Top 40… →