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Finally a Post! Romeo’s Way Book 22 for 2021!

Ok so it may or may not be obvious but I am not having an easy time restarting posting to this blog. I have started countless posts only to not finish them. Frankly, I really don’t know why. Part of the reason may be that I am being overly self-critical. I keep telling myself no one cares or even likes what you write! Additionally, I think of the vast quantity of blogs and say to myself, “why do you think anyone is going to visit your blog?”My answer is always the same – I don’t know”. Then I decide to go and find something else to do! Read More

Mothership Provides the Soundtrack for My First Run of 2021!

Mothership - High Strangeness Ok so I’m thinking about going back to a larger variety of posts. The problem is my undiagnosed ADHD will not let me focus on just Books and Music. My life is too much more than just those two topics. Anyway l, while I still ponder how I want to expand the topics addressed on this blog here’s a post with a musical tie-in. Read More

Spaceslug -Leftovers Discovered Thru Music Listening Expansion!

Spaceslug - Leftovers album coverp

So when I have looked over my recently played on Spotify over the last couple of weeks I am confusedThe reason is that none of the music looks familiar. You ask – how come? Read More

Brooks Williams Little Lion Kicks Off My Weekly CD Listens!

Brooks Williams and four others compromise my weekly CD LISTENS

As part of my on-going effort to listen to music from MY music library, last week, I randomly selected five albums and loaded them into my CD player. Then at some point in the week I listened to them. I confess that I did listen to one of them twice? Any quesses on which one? Anyway here are the five albums….. Read More

The Other Mrs – Mary Kubica A Great Read! What’s Next?

The Other Mrs - Mary Kubica oil cover

I have started many posts about books over the last year by writing, this isn’t a book I typically read. I’ve written this so often I’m starting to think that maybe these types of book aren’t as untypical as they used to be! Anyway book 5 for 2021 is The Other Mrs. By Mary Kubica. Read More

Wes Montgomery and Robben Ford Provide a Day of Blues and Jazz

Wes Montgomery and Robben Ford albums today’s random picks So yesterday’s random numbers were 3 and 5. Those numbers led me to one blues album from Robben Ford and the Blue Line and a jazz album from Wes Montgomery. The Robben Ford album is his 1995 release Handful of Blues. The Wes Montgomery album was Movin’ Wes, released in 1964 on the Verve label. Read More

Ragnar Jonnason -The Darkness the Start of a Great Series!

The Mist is one of the four books I have planned to read over the next four weeks. I knew it was part of a different series from Ragnar Jonnason Rupture the last of Jonasson books that I’ve read. Rupture is part of Ragnar’s Dark Iceland series, while The Mist is part of the Hidden Iceland series. Read More

A New Idea leads to Stevie Ray and Bill Morrissey

You know what they say- out of site out of mind. Over the last week or so I do believe they may be right.

Recently, I decided to take the CDs I like out of storage and put them on shelves in my room. Yes I know I can play them all on my iPod or I can stream them on Spotify, but there is something about seeing and holding an album or CD that feels good and right. Read More

Cultural Literacy Leads to Michael Faraday!

Back in 1987, E.D. Hirsch, Jr. wrote a book wtitled Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know. The premise of the book there are core things that all Americans should have knowledge of to be culturally literate. Read More