Earlier this week, FB friend and Colorado pottery artist extraordinaire, Tom Edwards, posted that he went to a Todd Rundgren concert. This immediately caught my attention because when I was in junior high I was madly IN LOVE with Todd Rundgren. He was one of my very first rock star crushes. Granted, I would’ve been […]
Category: music
Crescent Super Band Goes for a Grammy
When you’re a kid you dream big. And if you’re a musical kid then one of your biggest dreams is winning a Grammy. As you probably know from reading my blog my teenage, music-loving, jazz-playing sons are in two different audition-only professional jazz bands. One of those bands, The Crescent Super Band, is recording its […]
Caleb Chapman’s Crescent Super Band, A Crescent Christmas
Happy Black Friday! Did you get out at the crack of dawn today to buy Old Navy T-shirts in colors you’d never wear just because they were two for $10? I chose to stay home an surf the Web for the exact same deals. Now with online shopping making EVERYTHING more competitive, watching the bargain […]
Mr. Miner Pageant at Park City High
Wednesday night my 17-year-old son, Derrick, was a contestant in the Mr. Miner Pageant at Park City High. Ah yes, every mother’s dream. Let me explain. Mr. Miner is an annual Park City High event right around homecoming week. (The “miner” being the Park City High mascot.) The student body selects 10 senior boys (this […]
Telluride: Free Thinkers and Beer Drinkers
I just got back from my weekend at the Telluride Jazz Festival. I’ve been to Telluride countless times, for the Jazz Fest and for the Telluride Film Festival, and I have to say it’s one of my favorite places in the whole world. Ironically, it’s a lot like my hometown of Park City, Utah, except […]
Crescent Super Band Wows at Telluride Jazz Festival
(This is an update to this post, since I just got done seeing the Crescent Super Band perform again live at the Telluride Jazz Festival.) In one word, AWESOME! I know it’s an overused word, but it’s the only word I can think of to describe The Crescent Super Band’s performance this weekend on the […]
FishClips
At least once a week I’m solicited to write an endorsement in my blog about random people’s products or causes. These promotional requests range from hawking books, to fundraisers, to Kickstarter or IndieGoGo projects, to CD and/or movie releases, to products, to marriage proposals. Yes, once some guy actually wanted me to put his marriage […]
7 Online Games that Haven’t Been Invented Yet (Part 1)
With summer vacation upon us my teenage sons want to get summer jobs. Kudos to them. I certainly could use a tourniquet to reduce the hemorrhage of our anemic family finances. But if my children plan to jump into the wide world of paychecks I’d rather they do something they love to earn money, which […]
“Picture This” At the Toastmasters International Speech Contest
Just this weekend I received my official Toastmasters pictures for winning the Toastmasters International Speech Contest at the District level on May 12th. As promised, I’m sharing one with you all now. (To jog your memory from a previous post, I’ve advanced to the semi-finals, where I’ll go on to compete worldwide at the International […]
Passion Makes Perfect
The UPS guy just dropped off a package, but I had to go outside to chat with him because there was a tenor sax and a bassoon wailing in the house. Actually, the latter was a tromboon, called such become my son took the mouthpiece and reed from his bassoon, stuck it in his trombone […]