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Stories In My Pocket · 1d ago

Song Challenge Week 5 — A Song That Reminds You of Someone

"Time After Time" was "our song" for Nicole and me because I was selfish.
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Stories In My Pocket · 2d ago

Suitcases of Memories — RIP Nicole Hitt, 1975-2012

I have wondered frequently how I would find out, who would tell me, how long it would take. My friend Lain was the one to tell me, for which I am incredibly grateful, and it took two days. Nicole Hitt, who for seven and a half years was my wife, died on Monday.
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Stories In My Pocket · 5d ago

Regular Richie Feature

My friend Richie enjoys seeing the search strings that led people to my blog, so every so often I post them for him. Here are some of the highlights from searches from the last month or so:
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Stories In My Pocket · 1w ago

Song Challenge Week 8 — A Song You Know All The Words To

As a writer, I take the words of songs seriously, so it's a rare song that I don't like at least in part because of the lyrics, and that means I'm know the words to almost all of my favorite songs. So which one to pick?
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Stories In My Pocket · 1W ago

Fire Flew From His Fingertips — Another CDB Exegesis

But then, there are the songs with depth, the songs that mean something, the songs that beg to be analyzed and discussed. Songs like "The Devil Went Down To Georgia."
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Stories In My Pocket · 1W ago

The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Subbing

The latest school year has almost drawn to a close, meaning that I have survived the better part of a school year as a substitute teacher. All in all, not bad.
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Stories In My Pocket · 1W ago

Song Challenge Week 7 — A Song That Reminds You Of A Certain Event

All these years later, "Wonderwall" still takes me back to that moment.
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Stories In My Pocket · 2W ago

Review — “The Voice” Bible

This Bible is very possibly the closest a lay person can come to what it would have been like to read the canon when it was first closed -- in contemporary language and with an understanding of the cultural context.
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Stories In My Pocket · 2W ago

Have You Heard The Buzz?

I've written before about how much I enjoy playing dress up at the Depot. Last week, however, I found out it could be even more fun than I'd realized.
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Stories In My Pocket · 2W ago

Review — Cowboy Mouth’s “This Train…”

With its tenth album, 20 years after its first, the band, with "This Train..." has captured in a single album a perfect Cowboy Mouth primer, capturing what the band is all about with songs that measure up with any they've recorded.
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