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Music Monday – “My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas/We followed a coyote through the dust of Mexico/Every one of them except for me survived/And I am still alive”

There are very few songs that can make the hair on my arms stand on end. This song, a reworking of an older song I loved growing up. But instead of focusing on men dying doing manly things as in the original, the update is about women dying in service of larger social issues. Incredibly […]

Posted 06 January 2020 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – KISS Does The Beatles

Found this flitting around YouTube – is there any band that doesn’t love The Beatles?  (Okay, Michael Stipe famously dissed The Beatles as “elevator music” but I think he later admitted he only meant they weren’t the music he listened to but often heard in the background.)  

Posted 27 December 2019 § FridayFunLink § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “We could leave the Christmas lights up till January/This is our place, we make the rules/And there’s a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you dear/Have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years?”

“Lover” – Taylor Swift

Posted 23 December 2019 § Family § PopCulture § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) °

Music Monday – “It’s bitterly cold with three feet of snow/And this wouldn’t be home If the wind didn’t blow”

“Just Me and the Ponies (For Christmas This Year)” – Corb Lund

Posted 16 December 2019 § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Christmas Eve will find me/Where the love light gleams/I’ll be home for Christmas/If only in my dreams”

I can’t believe I’ve never posted this song before – one of the most absolutely beautiful, heart-wrenching Christmas songs of all-time. And so appropriate these days too. We’re extremely excited for our first Christmas in our new house of course. But it also comes with mixed emotions knowing that a decision we made only two […]

Posted 09 December 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “It seems such a waste of time/If that’s what it’s all about/Mama if that’s movin’ up/Then I’m movin’ out”

“Moving Out (Anthony’s Song)” – Billy Joel

Posted 02 December 2019 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Ah, home, let me come home/Home is wherever I’m with you”

I think I’ve probably posted this old viral video before but as we prep to move into our new house, it felt appropriate for a few reasons – the title “Home” obviously but also for how it reminds me of Sasha who’s increasingly into music and has taken to making up her own songs to […]

Posted 25 November 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “And she told me that she loved me/And I grinned and grabbed her hand and said, “I know”/Let’s get from here/Now darling if we’re going/Let’s go on and go.”

“Good Lord, Lorrie” – Turnpike Troubadours

Posted 18 November 2019 § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “Let us stray till break of day in love’s valley of dreams/Just you and I, a summer sky, a heavenly breeze kissin’ the trees

I honestly never knew this song had lyrics until I started putting together this post… “Moonlight Serenade” – Glenn Miller Orchestra

Posted 11 November 2019 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Sad § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Our house, was our castle and our keep/Our house, in the middle of our street/Our house, that was where we used to sleep”

“Our House” – Madness  

Posted 04 November 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: