What about This General?

May 11, 2007.Reading time 2 minutes.

The President listens to the troops…the men and women on the ground? Yes, it’s a question. And the longer the war goes, the more I wonder about it For example, how about these? Is that ad too connected with Wesley Clark to be convincing? Still doesn’t include someone “on the ground” from Iraq? OK, then. […]

Sheron Patterson

May 9, 2007.Reading time 3 minutes.

Incredibly, another clergy friend has cancer. This time, it’s my old friend, Sheron Patterson. Sheron is probably known to some of you. She occasionally writes op-eds for the Morning News, and appears in other media settings. So, if you think you recognize her, you probably do. Sometime after my friend Kathleen Baskin announced her cancer, […]

Not Robbed This Time

May 5, 2007.Reading time 6 minutes.

A year ago on this blog, I started something of a mini-internet sensation with my allegation that the Dallas Mavericks were robbed of the NBA Championship by sorry officiating and the Oscar-worthy acting skills of Dwyane Wayde. You can read the original post here. An amazing number of people still stumble on that blog post […]

Dan Fogelberg Tribute Show at Custer Road

April 19, 2007.Reading time 4 minutes.

Connections Band has another show coming up and I wanted to be sure you knew about it. We’re going to do our great Tribute to Dan Fogelberg Show again. Here are the details: A Tribute to the Music of Dan Fogelberg Friday, May 4, 2007 7 pm Custer Road UMC 601 Custer Road, Plano, TX, […]

When There Are No Answers

April 18, 2007.Reading time 15 minutes.

Sometimes, when a horrible tragedy happens, there are simply no good answers. Or, if there are, it takes weeks –if not months– for them to emerge. This morning, I am thinking, of course, of the shocking events at Virginia Tech yesterday. And it strikes me that the one thing we know is that we don’t […]

Kathleen Baskin-Ball

April 13, 2007.Reading time 14 minutes.

Kathleen Baskin-Ball has cancer. She’s been fighting cancer for several months, and I have a good idea she’s going to beat it. There is a benefit concert for her coming up on April 22, and I wanted you all to know about it. “The Power of a Song: An Evening with Nashville Songwriters” benefitting Rev. […]

A Conversation About Art and Soul

April 3, 2007.Reading time 3 minutes.

A while back, I wrote you about a great new podcast here in our area, called Art and Soul of North Texas. I’m writing you about it again today because I was the featured artist for March. Because of our vacation, we didn’t get the interview done until late in the month, and I wanted […]

Annie Benjamin

March 29, 2007.Reading time 7 minutes.

Annie Benjamin is probably my oldest musician friend.* I met Annie years ago, when she had just moved back to Dallas from New York, and when I had just begun having the courage to play songs in front of anyone. We both became regulars at a couple of open mics around town. One was at […]

My New Baby: A Santa Cruz Guitar, OMPW

March 24, 2007.Reading time 16 minutes.

I was born in California. In the LA area. But I don’t remember much about it, since my folks moved back to Texas (where they were really from anyway) just a few months later. A few years after that, they moved back to LA for several additional months, and I have vague recollections of Disneyland […]

Sweet Sixteen

March 9, 2007.Reading time 6 minutes.

There’s lots of time left in the season, but it’s still nice to pause and consider what these Dallas Mavericks have accomplished so far. Charles and Mary invited us to the game Tuesday night, which we knew going in could be history-making in one respect. But we didn’t know at the time just how history […]