Missed it

I missed it. Yesterday would have been my parents’ 63rd wedding annivesary. They are now somehow mystically reunited, I have no doubt.

Chaminade

My voice student Owen showed up in the Chamanide ad in the St. Louis Magazine education issue. That’s Owen front and center in a scene from Oklahoma! last year.

Miniatures

I visited last weekend the National Museum of Toys and Miniatures in Kansas City. What a must-see this museum is! Some photos to mark the visit . . . A fairy garden on a tube of lipstick: A cottage based on Miss Marple: Various miniature rooms: A main floor of a French mansion: An architecture

My ride

Reunion

I am in Kansas City this weekend for a reunion of choir members who sang in the Mixed Choir at Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral over the 40 years that John Schaefer was the Canon Musician there. Our Saturday evening was joyous indeed! John built such a powerful community of people who cared deeply about

Mike Warnke

I got to thinking this week about Mike Warnke, a Christian comedian. His comedy was part of my college life, and on a snowy night in January 1982, Mike Warnke performed at Southwest Baptist University in a recorded event that would later become his album Higher Education. I was at the time the chairman of

Arches

Circus Harmony’s St. Louis Arches performed at the Missouri History Museum on Sunday. Here are photos from their performance:

#TBT: Roger Whittaker

For some reason I got to thinking about Roger Whittaker the other day. I then queued up some of his music and listened more or less intently as I cleaned the top floor of my house. Roger Whittaker released “The Last Farewell” in 1975, and toured this country in 1976. It was at about that

Little library

My neighbors — Elizabeth and James, brilliant folks that they are! — have built a little library for their flower garden by the street, and placed that little library on a huge stump that they repurposed. I think this is adorable!

What I wish

One week from tonight!