A mother’s heart is definitely never hers alone. She shares it with every child who emerges from her body into the light of a waiting world. The bond between mother… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Songs #70 & 71/250: Matador by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Mothers of the Disappeared by U2
Hawksley Workman has been a mainstay on the Canadian music scene for much of my adult life. Born in 1975 as Ryan Corrigan in the beautiful town of Huntsville, Ontario,… Read More »The Great Canadian Road Trip…Song #81/250: We’re Not Broken Yet by Hawksley Workman
“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” was originally written by Charles Wesley in 1739, making it one of the oldest carols on record. The carol was originally written by Wesley as… Read More »Christmas Stories To Be Shared By The Fire: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing by Charles Wesley and George Whitefield, Music by Felix Mendelssohn and William H. Cummings
Everyone comes from somewhere. For Taylor Alison Swift, that somewhere was a small town of less than five thousand people called West Reading, Pennsylvania. As a young child, her parents… Read More »Christmas Stories To Be Shared By The Fire: Christmas Tree Farm by Taylor Swift.
My youngest daughter and I call ourselves the “Dynamic Duo”. She is fifteen years of age as I write these words. We have managed to achieve a form of personal… Read More »Christmas Stories To be Shared By The Fire: Like It’s Christmas by The Jonas Brothers
When I was growing up as a child on Cape Breton Island one of the things that helped define the holiday season was singing. We sang in school. We sang… Read More »Christmas Stories To Be Shared By The Fire: Carol of the Drum (aka The Little Drummer Boy) by Katherine Kennicott Davis
EDITOR’S NOTE: Just a quick little reminder about how to get the most out of the music-themed posts that I publish. By now I have written about some of the… Read More »Christmas Stories To Be Shared By The Fire: Run Rudolph Run by Chuck Berry, Johnny Marks and Marvin Brodie
“Happy Christmas (War Is Over)” was released in 1971. It was the follow up single to Lennon’s iconic peace song “Imagine” and capped off a very productive, high profile two… Read More »Christmas Stories To Be Shared By The Fire: Happy Christmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon, the Plastic Ono Band and the Harlem Community Choir
As an elementary school teacher, one of my main responsibilities was helping my students to understand the world in which they found themselves. For nine of the ten months that… Read More »Christmas Stories To Be Shared By The Fire: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer by Johnny Marks
I live in a household that has been known to air the occasional Hallmark Christmas movie. When these Hallmark Christmas movies first began to air many years ago, their arrival… Read More »Christmas Stories To Be Shared By The Fire: Hard Candy Christmas by Dolly Parton