The Healing Power of Music
Normally (sixteen years), Memorial Day Weekend, Yuri and I would recount how the latest BobFest show has gone. Pat Guadagno and Tired Horses’ BobFest was a reunion of some of the best working musicians to celebrate Bob Dylan’s birthday and music.
Spring Days at the Eastern Shore
These are Yuri’s Spring Days. Having missed them the past two years, we’re enjoying the budding trees and fields, awash in Nature’s Spring Green color palette collection.
Nor’Easter 2010 / Kinderhook Revival
The storm reminded us of Nor’Easter 2010, rocking New Jersey back then into a state of emergency. People hunkered down. But not the 400 fans who witnessed a historical event– Kinderhook’s reunion.
Tick Tock An Interactive Metronome
Two years ago, Yuri and I took the first of two Pfizer shots at the Rockaway Mega Site, NJ. We knew nothing about it. No one told us anything about the possible adverse effects.
Cooking for Your Soul and for Ukraine
Cooking. The basics for life. A human need. Eating good food brings comfort, so we align ourselves with comfort food. Creature comforts are not frivolous; they are necessities
Rooted in Life, Rooted in Love
Reunions are joyful occasions, especially with loved ones. Having loved ones around for the sad life moments may be the only way one can get through tough emotional times
Wild Thing, Yuri Makes My Heart Sing
It’s New Year’s Eve. Yuri tells me at breakfast how much he wants to play music again. That one sentence makes my heart sing.
World Cup and Jersey’s Own Music Dynasty
A week of watching the World Cup brought us to the table to write Christmas cards, a tradition I don’t think I will ever give up. The first snowfall continues into this late afternoon, and the gray light seems softer as we get closer to the winter solstice’s shortest day of the year.
The Prognosis: Music Is the Best Medicine
An impromptu visit by Pat Guadagno, Jersey’s Own troubadour, and Yuri’s longtime music compadre open a forensic study on how and why Yuri was hit by ANCA vasculitis.
Q. How’s Yuri Doing? A. He’s Doing Well
Our many friends out there are asking, How’s Yuri doing? The answer is, he’s doing well. Yesterday was five months since I got him home from the hospital without going to rehab.
Last Tango in Aberdeen Let It Shine
There will always be a recalling of an event when an immense upheaval creates a collective memory for all times.
Storm Tracker and the Permafrost Tapes
This morning we did what normally we’ve done since our marriage and on a Sunday in August 2011, we were reading the paper about Hurricane Irene blowing through the weekend. I stayed up all night.
