More Songs and Stories From Home

Pat and I left the river and went to the cemetery. It was beginning to rain.

My dad died on May 28, 1997. My mother turned 75 the next day. For more than twenty years on the 28th we celebrated my dad's whole life and his dying day.

There was a natural progression of places Pat and I visited as we honored my parents' lives. We started with places that represented the lives they had lived.

There is a saying out there that "we are as sick as our secrets." As someone who grew up in a family with a secret - in this case that my dad had been in a mental institution when I was born - I ac

It was challenging yet important to visit places my folks lived and worked and worshipped and raised their family.  

On May 28, 2022 it was 25 years since my dad died. The next day would have been my mother's 100th birthday.

It was something special to return to my high school.

After singing songs for my classmates I began to talk about my experiences in high school. I laughed as I told them that my high school experience might be summed up in four words.

This Episode contains more songs for classmates.

This Episode contains more songs written for individual classmates.