One person I love playing music with on a regular basis is Phil Loebe, a great tenor, good guitar player and fine percussionist. Phil is legally blind. When he’s directing his gaze in your direction, he isn’t seeing you. Through a new technology, however, life has taken a providential turn for Phil. Following […]

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Aretha Franklin has died. Her transition left me feeling sad and somewhat empty. I hated to see that day arrive. I have rarely felt the intensity of loss that I feel for her, at least when it comes to famous people who I’ve never met. Why would this be? We have to go way back […]

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