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Care-Free Youth, or, My So-Called Mid-Century Life
My original article for “Ohio Magazine,” December 1992 My childhood home was a “Care-Free Home,” one of 24 built by the Alcoa Aluminum Company. It was a Mid-Century design utopia, though I didn’t know...
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The Seven, Vol. 5: Stopping time
Is it just me, or does the year speed up suddenly in November? This is problematic, for there is so much I want to savor and remember. . . . 1. I’m looking forward to hearing phenomenal organist David...
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While You Were Sleeping
Dear Pete, You started coughing in mid-November. You were hospitalized with pneumonia on a Sunday, and we all figured you would get out after a few days of antibiotics. Five days later, my sister Liana...
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2013, Resolved
Goals for 2013 What I resolved, and how I did: I want to learn how to prepare a few more healthy foods. I didn’t learn how to make the Thai rolls, but I did make a lot of smoothies. That counts,...
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The Seven, Vol. 7: Lung me tender
1. So I’m recovering from the flu. No one else in the house got it but me. I’m sure its nastiness was blunted by the flu shot I got last October, but it still got me good: Muscle aches, fatigue, fever,...
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Dreams, dollies, and pianos
Me, playing our new Baldwin Howard grand piano in 1979: Me at the ivories, 1979, probably after church or before a recital. Definitely before the dog. I loved that piano. I even held slumber parties...
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The Seven, Vol. 10: Lenten Presence
1. It’s Lent, Lent, time to repent! This is a lyric from one of my favorite Lenten songs, written and performed by The Dogma Dogs, a Catholic music group that started in Steubenville, OH. A sample...
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Eden’s Ins and Outs for 2015
Eden’s INs and OUTs for 2015 IN: Reading books OUT: Reading minds Resolved for 2015: Teach well and often! High quality audio and video recordings of music lessons for my students Relying on hazy...
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O Mio Casteel Caro
Casteel studio classes include guest appearances by Big Joe the labrador. About once a month I hold a Studio Class for my student singers. Some are preparing songs for auditions and performance. Some...
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Laura Lee Hickfang, RIP
I recently sang at the memorial service for Laura Lee Hickfang, the wife of my late voice teacher Prof. Paul Hickfang. Laura Lee died in April after a short illness. Teenaged Laura Lee Green, about ten...
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