About twenty years ago, I was living in Vermont, doing odd jobs for my grandfather, waiting tables near a ski resort and getting ready to go to graduate…

I was brought up on a potato farm in Hodgdon, Maine. I went to school in Hodgdon and, later, for high school in Houlton. As a child I was immersed in so…

A couple Julys ago, I was invited to a concert at the Drummore Bay Concert Hall, a meticulously restored grange hall in Phippsburg. We parked between…

Over thirty years ago, in November 1987, the Surry Opera Company, a group of non-professional singers from Surry, Maine, traveled to the then USSR to sing…

I have been a music lover my entire life. The songs that have withstood the test of time to me are songs that could be beautiful poems on their own. When…

The music that moves me is Swing Jazz, specifically Benny Goodman's version of Sing, Sing, Sing played at his 1938 concert at Carnegie Hall. My Dad had…

In 2001, I sang Vivaldi’s “Gloria” with the Woodfords Church choir. I brought my 90-year-old mother. I found it hard to put into words the feeling that…

When I was driving home last evening from caring for my three little Maine grandchildren, which I do two days a week, I had NPR on in the car which I…

These days I mostly enjoy listening to classical music on the radio. I love Robin Rilette’s morning show. She may spin classical disks, but I think that…

Lavender, Hummingbirds, and AC/DC Before she died, my friend Beth assured us all that she’d appear from the Afterlife in the form of lavender and…