details: If you’re going to play in a band, SOMEONE has to know the words!
- 03/18/10 11:57 PM
Every other Friday night, a group of friends and I gather up our instruments and electronics and head to a local watering hole to create some musical magic. And while we know how to play nearly a thousand songs, the odds of one of us knowing all of the lyrics from start to finish is fairly remote. As a matter of fact, we often find ourselves looking to each other with that quizzical look that asks: “line?” For a guitar player, once the licks are committed to memory the seemingly innocuous task of learning the words seems inconsequential. This is not … (23 comments)
details: Life lessons from a coffee pot. Paying attention to every detail is important if you want to correctly finish the job!
- 02/02/10 11:13 PM
I have one of those fancy-schmancy coffee makers that automatically grinds the coffee beans and brews a fresh pot of java every morning. It is supposed to make my life easier. But it’s not really that “automatic” after all is said and done, because I have to clean the grinder, load the beans, fill the water, empty the old coffee grounds, insert a new filter, clean the coffee pot, and set the timer. If I fail to take any of those steps, the coffee is either unfit to drink or is not brewed at all. It is a task that … (27 comments)
details: Even the mightiest of the mighty can be brought down by the smallest thing.
- 08/23/08 12:28 AM
In the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the high elevation spruce-fir forest has been under attack for several decades, and the tall Douglas and Frasier firs and the Eastern Hemlock are being lost forever. What is interesting is that these might giants are succumbing to the tiniest of enemies. The culprit is a small insect, the wooly agelid. The agelid is a parasite that infests the trees and over a long period of time, literally sucks the life out of them. What once was a magnificent forest cover has been reduced to tall wooly skeletons of what once was. These trees … (15 comments)
Every other Friday night, a group of friends and I gather up our instruments and electronics and head to a local watering hole to create some musical magic.
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