Stomach flu is an effective vacation-killer, but can also help you to bond with your boyfriend’s mother. Brian promptly got sick about six hours after I arrived in Pittsburgh. We decided earlier to stay at his mom’s place because his dad was already sick with the stomach flu on Christmas day, but since Brian had [...]
Archive for December, 2008
beating the odds
Posted in life on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it
Posted in life on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is my favorite Christmas hymn, both for the chant and for the text. It sums everything up so beautifully.
Of the Father’s love begotten
Ere the world began to be
He is Alpha and Omega
He the source, the ending he
Of the things that are, that have been
And that future years shall see
Evermore and evermore
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Oh, that birth forever [...]
east coast/west coast
Posted in life on December 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
While my brother is living it up in Istanbul for Christmas (Hagia Sophia, people! Envy, lots of it…), I am living a decidedly quieter life in the cool and sometimes rainy surroundings of Tempe, AZ. Because of church services on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, I’ve decided to stick around here for the festivities, after [...]
guten tag!
Posted in life on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I promise this blog won’t turn into entries of my favorite youtube videos. However, I couldn’t pass this one up. Ha!
-LY
Posted in life on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I never saw The Electric Company when I was a kid, but the humor of this clip probably would have been lost on me at that age anyway.
fish out of water
Posted in music on December 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m listening to Chanticleer’s Christmas cd “Let it Snow”, released last year. Some of it is good, and some it is awful. I mean really awful. And this is saying a lot, because Chanticleer is, hands down, my favorite professional choral group. Better than The King’s Singers.
For goodness’ sakes, when you’re known for beautiful performances [...]
upside-down turkey and other adventures
Posted in life on December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In the spirit of American gluttony, I had two Thanksgiving dinners this year—the first as a guest and the second as the cook. Brian’s coworker and her husband invited us over on Thursday for a meal with various other musicians, mostly of the Phoenix Symphony string-player variety. Surprisingly, conversations around the table were mostly NOT [...]
