Songs and Stories Blog

When all we can do is be...

Sometimes all we can do is to be

The Mourning Ryde and the Carpenters

Remember to remember the dreamers and the dreams!

Singing through the years.

Singing through the years

Music has been a big part of extended family life.

The Mourning Ryde returns 55 years later to where it all began

The four of us who sang in college have remained lifelong friends. Between Christmas and New Years in 2022 we decided we would go back to the Phi Gamma House just off the University of Washington campus where we met and made our one recording in December of 1967.

There are times to step out of one's life and then times to return to one's life.