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Category Archives: Music
All the Blogposts I Didn’t Write
Yes, I have been spending too much eating, sleeping, dashing about, and in general thinking about, but not writing, blogposts. Guilty, guilty, guilty as charged. Here are just a few of the blogposts I didn’t write: Divine Celtic and Eastern … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Courage, Food, Happiness, Music, Op/Ed Thoughts, Screen, Travel, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Birdman, blogposts, Chief Dan George, Comanches, FDR, Lone Watie, Loreena McKennitt, Quanah Parker, S. C. Gwynne, Teddy Roosevelt, The Empire of the Summer Moon, The Outlaw Josey Wales
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A Happier Right Now
It is January, with overnight temps hovering around 32 degrees below freezing where we live, the holidays are over, and we are hacking our way back in the saddle again. Here are some ideas I have gleaned to seriously make … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Happiness, Music
Tagged Alan Ehrenhalt, American Graffiti, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Cary Mulligan, Charles Montgomery, Elizabeth Cook, Emmylou Harris, Falcon radio, Happiness, Happy City, Jason Isbell, Justin Timberlake, Louise Mosrie, Mark Knopfler, Nina Simone, Pieter Aspe, Sarah Jarosz, Stark Sands, The Black Cadillacs, The Diamonds, The Mavericks, The Square of Revenge, Tori Amos, Toto, William Clark Green
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The Music of Life
Posted in Autobiographical, Bruce Springsteen, Courage, Happiness, Intuition, Music, Screen, The Arts
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My Pony Likes to Jump!
When our city put three speed bumps (or “humps”, as they were unfortunately described by the accompanying signs) on our street, our neighborhood association’s block captains cheered. My husband and I did not agree the bumps were a good thing, … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Joy (Joie de General), Music
Tagged Honda Accord, Kitty Kallen, speed bump, speed bumps
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Happiness, Wodehouse, and the Rock Goddess
“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.” ~ E. L. (Elaine Lobl) Konigsburg, American author and illustrator of children’s books and young adult fiction “As … Continue reading
Posted in Happiness, Joy (Joie de General), Music
Tagged E.L. Konigsburg, Happiness, Janis Joplin, P.G. Wodehouse, thoughts to live by
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Best-kept Secrets of Knoxville
You may have lived in Knoxville all your life or just arrived, but there are few things you need to know about this small-town city to enlarge your life, have more fun (two ways), pay less for amazing finds, eat … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Food, Knoxville, Music, Style
Tagged American denim, Best-kept secrets in Knoxville, Bistro at the Bijou, Coffee and Chocolate, Handmade chocolate, Knoxville, Marc Nelson Denim, Marcus Hall, Regal Downtown West, Reruns Boutique, Sitar Indian Restaurant, Sole in the City
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Breaking the Code
The other night I was watching a particularly ingenious, forgive the phrase, network television program, (yes, unlike some of my friends, I do watch television from time to time, i.e., most nights) that will remain nameless (Elementary) and I began gathering epiphanies in … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Backyard Nature, Knoxville, Music, Photography, Screen
Tagged American Kid, baby birds, Birds, Elementary, Jonny Lee Miller, Patty Griffin
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Agnus Desi
Yes, I was looking up a song on iTunes and with a slip of the keyboard went from classical music to dragging an I Dream of Lucy character, kicking and screaming, into the mix! Never a fan of the show or Lucille … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Creativity, Joy (Joie de General), Music, Screen
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I’m a Dancing Girl
I have always been drawn to people and communities who dance. My theory is that when a culture loses its dancing as a community, it loses its vitality and reason for existing, what the French call raison d’être. Conversely when … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Bruce Springsteen, Creativity, Dance, Knoxville, Music
Tagged Bruce Springsteen, communal dance, dancing, finding your soul, folk dance
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Don’t play what…
Don’t play what is there. Play what’s not there. Miles Davis
Posted in Creativity, Intuition, Music
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