Songs

? School’s Out For Summer! ?

This is me in 1966, the year "See you in September" was a hit

See You In September  (bye-bye, so long, farewell) “See You In September”  was a hit by The Happenings in 1966. I was 8 years old and that song’s melody and lyric are burned into my memory banks. Six years later,…

Transgender Day of Remembrance

“Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was killed in 1998. The vigil commemorated all the transgender people…

Let Every Voice Be Heard

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I awaken around 3:30 this morning with these words on my lips. I think to myself, “That sounds like a familiar lyric.” I open my voice memo app and record that line and this one as well: Let Kindness and…

A Virtual Recital

Clockwise from top left: Alan, Evie, Caiden, Annabelle, Daniel, Lily, Cora, Jenny

Times like this [Can you say pandemic?] call for alternative performance modes. With all of us under stay-at-home orders, group performances are out of the question. Our Spring Recital dates (April 26 and May 3) came and went without our…