A Word About … Reading We live in what could be called a frenetic and confusing world. One of the ways I try to stay on track with my life, especially in the midst of so much uncertainty, political rhetoric, slant, spin, news (fake and otherwise) … is by reading. My library in my…
A Word About Autonomy When I was growing up, I thought my dad was the smartest man in the world. I remember riding in the car with him and wondering how he always knew where he was going and how to get there. He knew when it was his turn to go, at a…
A Word About Vocabulary I got to wondering the other day… how many words I actually know? Not the ones in dictionaries. Not the hundreds of thousands that scholars say belong to the English language. I mean the words that live in me. The ones I reach for when something needs to be said….
A Word About Practice and Rehearsal I’ve spent a good part of my life around music. Pianos, choirs, instrumentalists. Warm-ups, run-throughs. I’ve made notes on the pages of music that ultimately become something you can actually hear. And over time, I’ve come to believe that there’s a difference between practice … and dress rehearsals….
A Word About Winding Every spring, and again late in the fall, we have a ‘change of seasons’ ritual at our house, because the time changes. Spring forward. Fall back. And more than a dozen clocks in our home all have to be changed to the correct time. Most of those clocks are battery…
A Word About Shelf Life My wife and I had to be away from our home rather unexpectedly, a few weeks ago. Our plan was to visit family for two or three days and then return home. But circumstances too cumbersome to go into here meant we would be away from our home for…
A word about,.. Story Time I’m not sure when I started enjoying the art of telling stories. Maybe it was in first grade, when every week — I think it was Fridays — my teacher, Miss Kenny would late in the afternoon and just before we were supposed to get out of the jail…
Ken Jones · Classic State of Mind – Stopping A word about,… Stopping I noticed something the other day on a sign — one of those road signs that workers put up when they’re working on the highway or a road. One of those big, orange signs. You’ve seen them, I’m sure. And, over…
Ken Jones · Classic State of Mind – Fear A word about Fear. I’m not sure how they ever figured it out; those scientists and really smart people who say that we humans are only born with two ‘factory-installed’ fears: The fear of falling, and the fear of loud noises. Now, I’m not a scientist,…
Ken Jones · Classic State of Mind – Conversations I word about,… Conversations. Most reasonable people believe in God, I think. Most sensible people even talk to God, (if not frequently, at least on occasion.) When the daze and dizziness of life’s journey becomes too great, When the bewilderment about what’s going on becomes so…