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I’m just so upset at this that I need to rant a minute. The attack in Charleston, SC was horrible, but some of the responses to the attack were just as bad. It was racially-motivated, but to have the governor of the state say “we’ll never understand what motivates anyone to enter one of our…

I was thinking about doing a B.B. King tribute after the legend died, so I started gathering up some blues records. Thought I’d do a brief history and show where B.B. King stood in the pantheon. A funny thing happened to me, though – I started out playing old-time blues records and never really got…

Thank you all for the heartfelt sympathy toward my dog. It’s been tough, but we’re getting through it. Since I’ve gotten all fat and lazy lately, I decided that I needed to get onto better shape, so I’ve started the “Couch to 5k” app on my iPhone. I just completed the first workout in week…

Fiona is no more. She didn’t get any better, and we ended her life. It was pretty sad – although she was not eating, drinking or going to the bathroom, her bladder infection had cleared up, so she was walking close to normal again. The Doctor said the next step would be hospitalization that would…

My dog’s 13th birthday was on May 5. She had diarrhea for the next week, but then it cleared up. The last Saturday, she became very lethargic and stopped eating. We took her to the vets on Tuesday but she still didn’t get better. Yesterday (Saturday) we took her to the emergency clinic, where she…

Hello and welcome. Today is a very special day – I’ve been doing my podcast for a year now. I’ve enjoyed putting together these podcasts for you, and I have a small but sincere audience who listens – thank you. If not for you I would have stopped doing this and been very frustrated. I…

The Amtrak crash earlier this week highlights the importance of the need to improve our infrastructure. The U.S. has been left behind when it comes to the railroad system. Europe and Japan have markedly improved their rail systems, including high speed rail service. California is building a high speed rail track, which will see phase…

Hello and welcome to one of my midweek podcasts. This is a jazz podcast, and in putting it together, I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of new jazz I had purchased this year, so 8 of the 9 songs were released in 2015, and the final song was from 2014. I feature 3 songs…

Started the podcast but got really sleepy – a bit unusual for me, but changed things up a bit in recording the podcast. Don’t know if age is catching up with me, because there are days when I find it’s tough to do much – I never had those days when I was young. I’m…

I hate to harp on this, but the weather until yesterday has not been great this spring. Temperatures are supposed to jump beginning today, so we’ll see. With a scheduled high of 82 Fahrenheit on Monday, maybe we’re skipping spring and going straight into summer – I’ll take it. On today’s podcast we start with…