Tag: Carpenters

  • Driving and singing: Carpenters, “A Song For You”

    Every Friday for a while I’ll be sharing songs I love to sing and telling stories about their place in my life. Here I tell a story about the first celebrity death that hit me hard. I wrote this before the recent deaths of David Bowie and Alan Rickman, deaths that did not hit me particularly…

  • Re-integrating joy

    My recent post about my renovated elementary school reminded me of this post I wrote when my blog was new and almost nobody was reading it. It shares some memories of Kindergarten in that school. So I’ve dusted it off, edited it a little, and added photos. My dad once told me that I was…

  • Best of DTR: Brushes with greatness

    When I published the first version of this post in April, 2007, the blog was new and got maybe five hits a day. I get, gosh, a whopping 50 hits a day now and have a few regular commenters, so I thought I’d dust this favorite off, update it a bit, and post it again.…

  • Re-integrating joy

    My dad once told me that I was the most joyful little boy he had ever known. During my first few years, he said, I seemed to constantly have a big beaming smile on my face, and everything seemed to make me happy. Now, I’m sure I didn’t enjoy it when I got in trouble…