Collecting My Thoughts

I've noticed for several years that "storytelling" is all the rage, Not dry facts and data. And in all fields. We had a lectur...

  https://youtu.be/VcRZdmJtVwY   2012, 8 years old https://youtu.be/Ra7h7lvHbuc   2019,  https://youtu.be/lALQAUn2QTo    2022, 18 years old ...

 Saturday morning TV/radio is rather. . . boring and bland.  Rehashes of the week's news and garden shows.  So while riding my indoor cy...

I've seen the Cheddar app scroll by on my screen, so today I decided to try it.  Sunday is not a regular news day, so I don't know h...

Philip Vincent Bruce was born November 25, 1968 in Columbus, Ohio, and died April 21, 2020 in the home of his parents, Robert and Norma Bruc...

When I was a teen, we had to go to the furniture store to buy records.  Listening to a popular song that was 9 years old would have meant—we...

Today, Psalm 92 came up in my meditation time. "It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to make music to your name, O Most High...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF074CL5vjI

“Music, the most-studied art reviewed, has been shown to have a number of benefits. One landmark study compared older adults who were invi...

To find inspiration for my morning bike (stationary) ride, I type in to Google, Choral sacred YouTube, so this morning I found AGNUS DEI...

Knowing how bulky old tape recorders were (I could hardly carry mine at all), I’m amazed this man could record these songs. http://www.smi...

http://www.today.com/video/today/53254690#53254690 Over 350,000,000 YouTube hits  and it was all a joke.  That’s how difficult it is...

Christmas  these days seems to begin around Halloween when Christmas themed merchandise appears in the stores, although for some retailers...

Take the Money and Run; Eat the rich; Let’s go crazy; Shakedown; All I need is a miracle; Tax man; Been caught stealing; Money for nothing...

Do the songs all sound alike to you? Maybe they are. Here's a fun way to review a little recent music history. HT Opining Online

Music isn't one of my hobbies or strengths, but I still enjoy reading David Meyers' blog about the local Columbus music scene. Colum...

I've been in a number of prisons, not as a prisoner, but as a visitor primarily following the same guy through the system until after se...

I was tracking back through some visitors to my blog that had stopped at my story about my cousin Kirby Johnson and his time with The Lincol...

Probably works better than lectures and finger wagging from the nanny state.

The science of music There's an interesting display on the science of music at the Science and Engineering Library at the Ohio State Uni...