So much of this series is grounded in my past. Makes sense, I guess. I mean, it would be pretty incredible for me to relate a musical yarn from the future, unpublished song included. I’m nostalgic, not magical. But there is a pronounced bias in my writing towards my distant past, and that concerns me. […]
My Life Is A Song #107
I didn’t truly understand that teachers are real people until I had school-aged children of my own. During my entire youth, teachers weren’t so much people as they were a spectrum of Sapiens-like humanoids crafted specifically for employ in the educational field. It rarely, if ever, dawned on me that they were regular people just […]
My Life Is A Song #106
If you’ve followed this series, you know country music is my guilty pleasure. And by country music I mean classic country, not the twangy pop rock that passes for country music nowadays. The good, old stuff, mostly from the seventies, with a bit of early eighties and late sixties tossed in for flavour. It’s the […]
My Life Is A Song #105
Since I’m on a roll with this, there are plenty more songs I don’t like. As is the case with most people, I guess, despite what self-proclaimed “lovers of music” would have you believe. Hell, there are entire genres I despise. No, it’s not rap, though that is an excellent, and close, guess. Jazz is […]
My Life Is A Song #104
In My Life Is A Song #103, I abused you with a song I don’t much like. I thought that was an interesting twist on the established modus operandi of this blog series so why the hell not roll with it. Here’s another song I don’t like. In fact, this is one I loathe. I […]