Dennis and I play a four-hand, one-piano duet of the classic “Sleigh Ride” every Christmas. The tradition began many years ago when we were to perform at a ladies’ Christmas luncheon. We weren’t really great then (even after a lot of practice) but we’re really not good now playing it only once a year for […]
There was a book by Dr. J. Allan Petersen entitled The Myth of the Greener Grass. Its subtitle is: Affair-Proof Your Marriage, Restore Your Love, Recover Your Dreams. From its title and subtitle, you can guess what it’s about. It’s full of case studies of marriages that were in trouble or failed and why. The […]
“The grass is always greener over the septic tank.” Erma Bombeck So why do we long for that which we do not have? One theory is that we are just built with restless spirits, that we are “prone to wander” as one hymn writer put it. And the theory is perhaps true to some extent. […]
“Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.” Ernest Hemingway from The Old Man and the Sea Bimini is comprised of three major islands: North, South and East Bimini. Population of the islands is around 1,600 residents. These coral islands are […]
Remember the movie The Truman Show? It starred Jim Carrey and Laura Linney. The movie was actually filmed near my hometown, at Seaside, Florida. But anyway, in the movie the main character, Truman Burbank, lives and works and seems happy in his life. After all, it is idyllic in the truest sense. It is safe […]
I grew up in Mayberry. My hometown, Geneva, Alabama at one time listed its official population as 5,000 people. However, I think this was a little bit of a stretch. Okay, if you counted the farmers and their families that lived beyond the fringe of the city limits…and a few of their cows, too, you […]
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” Mark Train Why Bimini? Well, one day it just rolled off my tongue perhaps as I stumbled into my ten-year-old son’s room and beheld the sight and the smell of his room a foot-deep in filth that had risen there in just a few short hours […]
Sometime early on in my life I think I was bitten by the “angst bug.” It left a welt on my spirit that’s been itching me ever since and I can’t seem to get any relief from it. I don’t remember a time that I wasn’t looking beyond where I was right then only to […]