The Power of Music

ST. FRANCIS AND SURGEONS Some years ago, I was asked to address the Oregon Medical Association during a crucial time when legislature was b...

A SONG SAVES SEPARATION Some years later a song would perform an important function as well. In the middle of my performing career, I spent...

PROPOSALS AND POETRY As a painfully shy teenager, I struggled with how to communicate my feelings, perhaps that is why I was drawn to the s...

CONCILIATION AND COMPOSITION The great Irish author, poet and motivational speaker Thomas Moore (1779-1852) Returned from a long trip to di...

MALFUNCTION AND THE MERRY WIDOW There are a myriad of means with which to communicate. Only one of them is verbal. My grandmother in the st...