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As Wikipedia notes, Bobby Short (1924 – 2005) was an American cabaret singer and pianist, who interpreted songs by popular composers...

I formed the habit of taking regular walks – mostly in Cambridge, Massachusetts – during the pandemic. I have discovered I love walking....

I recently read for the second time Charlotte Joko Beck's posthumous book Ordinary Wonder (2021). Charlotte Joko Beck (1917 – 2011) was...

As Wikipedia notes, The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman...

As Wikipedia notes, It's Too Late to Stop Now is a 1974 live double album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It features...

Lake Street Dive is one of my favorite bands. Formed in 2004 at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, the band's founding...

In 2022, my interest in photography resurfaced and caught fire. I am thrilled to have come across the photography of Ernst Haas. As...

As Wikipedia notes, Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement is an American television series and 14-part documentary about the...

I came upon this video on Youtube featuring Nashville singer Kayla Kroh and I cannot stop watching and listening to it: Kayla Kroh is...

Siegfried Hansen is Germany's most respected street photographer. I learned about him from an interview he did with Samuel Lintaro Hopf...

Naudo Rodriguez is a self-taught master of the guitar. The music flows through Naudo.

“Don’t just fix problems, avoid problems.” Joe Rand shares this bit of wisdom in his book How to be a Great Real Estate Agent. Of course,...

Lao Tzu was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching and the founder of philosophical...

As Wikipedia notes, "Folsom Prison Blues" is a song by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. Written in 1953, it is one of Cash's...

As Wikipedia notes, Jim Valvano (March 10, 1946 – April 28, 1993), nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball player, coach...

As Wikipedia notes, Peter, Paul and Mary were an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music...

As Wikipedia notes, Louis Armstrong (1901 – 1971) – nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops" – was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He...

I recently read Ezra Bayda's Beyond Happiness: The Zen Way to True Contentment (2011). This quote from the book got my attention: Thank...

I just finished reading The Gap and the Gain (2021) by Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan. This is an excellent book that posits that right...

Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "From the Beginning" (1972) is a perfect song. Magical. Listen: "From the Beginning" There might have been...