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Finishing Things

“The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.” Ralph Waldo Emerson How many things have you finished lately? How many half finished projects do you have in your life labeled “For when I have […]

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Silent Ovation

It all began with a very strange phone call from a fellow from a small town just north of Grand Rapids. I can’t recall the fellow’s name or the little town involved but he invited […]

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Chronology

Some time ago I began the challenging project of writing down the dates of events in my life.  I know that some people record most of their families dates of birth, death, marriages and such. […]

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Change

Many years ago I did a number of talks for top corporations for the National Management Association. One of the little items in my talks was that everything you learn in college will be obsolete […]

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Touching Lives

I’ve been spending many hours looking at old video tapes of my performances in a wide variety of areas. There are tapes of my working with teachers, with children, in schools and with parents.  A […]

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Al Hirt

In the late nineties I visited New Orleans and heard the late Al Hirt in one of his final appearances in a small club on Bourbon Street. When he finished playing I had the chance […]

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Getting There

Oh so many years ago I was a banquet speaker for an educational association at the then Pantland Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Later it was called The Amway Grand. I drove there OK and […]