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The highlight of my 2007 year had to be our 2 week family vacation in England this past July. We stayed in the same seaside town of Deal in Kent where my family had lived 35 years ago when my father took a sabbatical leave from teaching. We’ve been back to visit a few times [...]

Matt Phelan, the illustrator for the recent Newbery award winning children’s book “The Higher Power of Lucky” happens to be a friend of ours. As you may have seen on the news, there has been an uproar over the author’s use of the word “scrotum” within the the first few paragraphs of the story. I [...]

I just finished Rip It Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds. It’s an easy and entertaining read about the period in music that probably defines my musical “coming of age” – the years 1978-1984. I’ll date myself here by saying that by 1984 I’d already been in a “cover” band playing Blondie, Ramones and [...]