The Music We Listened To
Ruth: Yesterday, my husband and I loaded up Daddy, his clothes and his folded-up wheelchair to move him from a small town 45 miles away to a home closer to us. He doesn’t seem to be aware of where he...
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Ellen: No need to test whether I’m Ruth’s sister, either. Though I have these periodic fits when I blare music (usually classic rock) and twitch my limbs in appreciation, these happen at greater and...
View ArticleTurning Up the Volume
There are people whose entire lives are accompanied by music. They wake up and turn it on. They work better listening to it. They can’t imagine living their lives in silence. I like silence. It...
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55 Blocks to Home
Who Do at Hill Country Barbecue Market Sometimes, you just know things. I knew, for example, that once my husband and I started walking the 55-block distance to see Who Do, an Austin band, on 26th...
View ArticleMeditations on Not Being the Kind of Woman Behind a Rock’n'Roll Song
Ask me how I am and I will probably tell you I’m fine. Or I’m doing pretty well. If the skies are raining nuclear pellets and the toilets overflowing and a fever blister the size of a billboard has...
View ArticleMy Career as a Singer
My career as a singer was really quite brief. It began in my Sunday school class when I was about eight. My mother taught that class in a little Methodist church in Wichita Falls, Texas. Wichita Falls...
View ArticleYeah, Yeah, Yeah
We spent Memorial Day weekend at a beautiful ranch in Texas’ Hill Country, far away from highways and civilization. When the clouds blew away, we could see the stars. We had long, leisurely talks with...
View ArticleMaybe It’s Just Me
Well! I think I have my routine at restaurants down pretty well. Here’s how it goes. I enter. I am seated. I look at the menu. I get a boring beverage like water or Diet Coke. Then I ask the waiter or...
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