The first music I remember hearing would be the sounds of the Brill Building. The Shirelles. The Drifters. The Ronnettes. “Be My Baby” is a song I remember hearing in my crib. It remains one of my favorites. Something about that drum beat and the vocal harmony reaches deep within me. Once I was driving my mother somewhere and I popped in a mix-tape…
Daylight Savings Time has been controversial since its inception. People do not like it when you mess with time. The clock in the head must match the clock of the day or else one risks madness. There is no time like the present, and daylight savings moves the present backward (or is it forward?) in time. We become dislocated from the hours. Sunrise is…
“So that’s over,” he said. “I reckon we can go back to forgetting about it.” “Sometimes you just gotta move on,” she told him. That much was a simple truth. Lots of other people had moved on. Other would. But for some reason it was not for him. “I can’t forget.” “You won’t forget,” she argued. “That’s just your way. It always has been.”…