• Modern Parenting

    Most kids today are so spoiled, coddled, catered to. It’s disgusting. The way I hear kids in the supermarket talk back to their parents is disheartening. That was NOT tolerated in our home. My father made it very clear what would happen if we disrespected our mother. And I see Moms cooking 10 different dinners…

  • COVID and The Lunatic Fringe

    During the past 2 years since the SARS-Cov-2 virus emerged as a global pandemic, I’ve been sharing news stories on Facebook. I faced, from the start, enormous and immediate pushback by anti-vaxers. They mocked, belittled, and ridiculed me. I didn’t stoop to their level. I presented the facts with my take on them. This anti-vaxx…

  • Favorite Christmas Songs

    These are some of my favorite songs! Which are your favorites? Please enjoy! Silver Bells Silver Bells, Silver BellsIt’s Christmas time in the cityRing-a-ling, hear them ringSoon it will be Christmas Day City sidewalksBusy sidewalksDressed in holiday styleIn the air there’sA feeling of ChristmasChildren laughingPeople passingMeeting smile after smileAnd on everyStreet corner you’ll hear Silver…

  • Pittsburgh the City of Bridges

    My city of Pittsburgh has the distinction of having the most bridges which support cars of any city in the world! I’m talking about large sized bridges not tiny wood or stone small bridges over ponds and streams! All of our bridges are capable of handling cars. Other cities have small footbridges, small bridges over…

  • Emma Kirkby

    Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen by J.S. Bach BWV 51 The first time I heard this performance was in autumn of 1995 at the store Audio Options on Forbes Ave. in Squirrel Hill, a neighborhood of Pittsburgh, with my dear friend Bany. We used to frequently stop by there to see what CDs they had…

  • Bach Magnifcat

    Magnificat in E-flat Major BWV 243a Composed in Leipzig, 1728-1731. First performed in Leipzig on either July 2nd or Christmas Day – December 25th, 1723.  Note: This work is not to be confused with Bach’s Magnificat in D Major (BWV 243) which is a revision of BWV 243a. This is my favorite performance of this…

  • More on Bach's Mass in B Minor

    I just posted recently about Bach’s Mass in B Minor (BWV 232), but I had to post again after discovering my favorite recording of this work on YouTube! Here is a recording by the Taverner Consort and Players directed by Andrew Parrott in which  historically informed performance (HIP) practices are used. The alto parts are…

  • Bach Mass in B Minor

    Mass in B minor (Messe in h-Moll) BWV 232 Bach composed this work in Leipzig, 1747-1749; It was mostly assembled from previous materials from 1724 onward. Netherlands Bach Society – Jos van Veldhoven, conductor Hana Blažíková, soprano 1 Anna Reinhold, soprano 2 David Erler, alto Thomas Hobbs, tenor Peter Harvey, bass This performance was recorded…

  • Silent Holocaust

    Since 1973 when the US Supreme Court legalized abortion, in the Roe v. Wade case, there have been over 63 million children murdered in cold blood by their mothers! Think of what these children could have accomplished as doctors, engineers, scientists, musicians, artists, filmmakers, teachers, lawyers, etc. I’m convinced someone from this genocide would have…

  • Calvinism Explained

      I’m a Calvinist. That means I subscribe to the 5 points of Calvinism. The Doctrines of God’s free and sovereign grace are more easily remembered by the acrostic TULIP. These 5 points of Calvinism were not invented by John Calvin. They came from the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) where leading Reformed thinkers came together…