No snow out here, but I can dream

I know my East Coast and Southern friends are digging out from under, so I hope they don’t hate me for this. Eric Clapton plays and sings “White Christmas” in a way you’ve never heard before. The song has a fascinating history: Irving Berlin wrote it in either 1940 or 1941. The first public performance …

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It’s coming

Yes indeed, December is almost here. The season of Santa Claus, the Grinch, Charlie Brown, “you’ll put your eye out” and George Bailey is nearly upon us. In fact, my neighborhood stores had Christmas decorations up even before Thanksgiving. It annoys me, but what can you do? It also means I am about to start …

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