LIFE: With Kathy being bed bound, our television is on a lot. We have the news and old movies playing in the background. The Hallmark channel has been on fairly often this holiday season. On the Hallmark Channel Christmas starts around Halloween and goes on and on until Valentines. As far as I can tell, it is just Christmas; no alternative feast days; no Hanukkah; no… Read more →
Tag: Fitchburg
Belated Valentines: definition of love
CAREGIVING: I read an amusing definition of love today. It was on the internet Huntington’s Disease caregivers support group I belong to. And it seems to apply to many people trying to take care of irritable loved ones. Love is when you are willing to give your life….. to save the life… of someone you want to kill. It doesn’t… Read more →
Oh Babe, I Just Found Some Grey Hair
MUSIC: Since I am in an anniversary week, I thought I would post another song. I really don’t write that many serious songs but Oh Babe was written for one of our early anniversaries. I finished it by our fifth. We were living in Boulder at the time and when we first got there, we were just getting by. Rents were… Read more →
Music Growing Up
LIFE: I am the curator of the Lehndorff family’s photographs. I’ve been scanning and trying to organize them. We were a pretty musical bunch, the Lehndorffs. Dad came over from Austria in 1938 with his cello. We had a string quartet that used to meet at our house in Fitchburg, MA. My dad loved it although he was the first… Read more →