Annie Benjamin
Mar/28/2007 07:39 AM Filed in: Balcony
People
Annie Benjamin is probably my oldest musician
friend.* I met Annie years ago, when she had just
moved back to Dallas from New York, and when I had
just begun having the courage to play songs in front
of anyone. (Read
the rest. Click here)
My New Baby: A Santa Cruz Guitar, OMPW
Mar/23/2007 08:09 PM Filed in: Music News
I was born in California. In the LA area. But I don't
remember much about it, since my folks moved back to
Texas (where they were really from anyway) just a few
months later. A few years after that, they moved back
to LA for several additional months, and I have vague
recollections of Disneyland and apartment buildings
from that stay. But it's all very misty in the mind's
haze.
I mention this because the one thing that's certain is that when I was just months old, my parents brought the baby-me back to Texas by car. I know this because I have heard the stories of the cross-country sojourn. They drove me back all those 1400 miles to Dallas, where I've lived out the vast majority of my life since.
Last week, our family went on our first vacation in two-and-a-half years. (Specifically, it was back in May of 2004 when Dennise, Maria and me last went anywhere together). Two elections, a new church building, a short-staff last summer, and a host of other really "important" things kept us from going anywhere whenever the chance would come.
But last week, we sensed we had the first real opening for a holiday with all of us together in those two-and-a-half years. And so we took it. We took a Spring Break trip to California.
I should warn you that I do intend to write a long, detailed, and potentially monotonous, travelogue-blog about the whole journey. (It was a wonderful trip) But there's one minor plot twist I just have to share now.
The twist is that while on vacation I got a new guitar. (Read the rest. Click here)
I mention this because the one thing that's certain is that when I was just months old, my parents brought the baby-me back to Texas by car. I know this because I have heard the stories of the cross-country sojourn. They drove me back all those 1400 miles to Dallas, where I've lived out the vast majority of my life since.
Last week, our family went on our first vacation in two-and-a-half years. (Specifically, it was back in May of 2004 when Dennise, Maria and me last went anywhere together). Two elections, a new church building, a short-staff last summer, and a host of other really "important" things kept us from going anywhere whenever the chance would come.
But last week, we sensed we had the first real opening for a holiday with all of us together in those two-and-a-half years. And so we took it. We took a Spring Break trip to California.
I should warn you that I do intend to write a long, detailed, and potentially monotonous, travelogue-blog about the whole journey. (It was a wonderful trip) But there's one minor plot twist I just have to share now.
The twist is that while on vacation I got a new guitar. (Read the rest. Click here)
Sweet Sixteen
Mar/08/2007 07:21 AM Filed in: HSOs from a
Bitter P1
There's lots of time left in the season, but it's
still nice to pause and consider what these Dallas
Mavericks have accomplished so far.
Charles and Mary
invited us to the game Tuesday night, which we knew
going in could be history-making in one respect. But
we didn't know at the time just how history making
the night would end up being.
(Read the rest. Click here)
(Read the rest. Click here)
Bragging on Dennise (Again)
Mar/01/2007 07:27 AM Filed in: Life Happens
As I mentioned two weeks
ago,
I have yet another reason to brag about Dennise.
Tonight at SMU, Dennise will receive the SMU Women’s Symposium "Profiles in Leadership Award." The Profiles in Leadership Award "recognizes Dallas women who exemplify the purpose of the Women’s Symposium, which is to educate women for social and political leadership." (Read the rest. Click here)
Tonight at SMU, Dennise will receive the SMU Women’s Symposium "Profiles in Leadership Award." The Profiles in Leadership Award "recognizes Dallas women who exemplify the purpose of the Women’s Symposium, which is to educate women for social and political leadership." (Read the rest. Click here)