Every year around this time, there’s a musical inevitability. Like gravity. Like glitter in your coat pockets until March. Mariah Carey arrives. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is basically the holiday’s emotional North Star. Thirty years old, somehow ageless, both nostalgic and aggressively modern. The moment […]
As I did my morning exercise routine, I listened to music as I always do. It then hit me. There are certain lyrics that stick with me that I even dare to sing out loud on the exercise path. As I exercised this morning, I took those lyrics, […]
It’s almost midnight. And, rather unexpectedly I started humming to myself the song Midnight Train to Georgia. I have never really listened to the song. I just did in order to see what my humming was about. That song is actually rather sad about shattered dreams and returning […]
I will state outright that I am not a tequila fan. I can occasionally stand to drink one margarita -especially a grapefruit or passionfruit one- here and there. And, by that maybe once every eight months or so. When I lived in California, tequila was everywhere. However, my […]
My Sleepless Nights and Hardworking Days: This week’s Earworms This week was a week where I barely slept and I worked from dawn till way past sunset. That’s pretty much a normal work week fro me. Although, one would think that during one’s last few weeks at work, […]