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Meeting my wife
Valentine’s Day was this week, so I thought I’d write about meeting my wife, Brenda. Our culture loves these stories. Probably because they are like snowflakes, each story is unique and beautiful. Summer of ’92 I was 27 and living in Lynchburg, Virginia. Meeting and dating girls had never gone well for me so I…
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Band is old America
Band is old America. I’m a band director and I teach students to do something that used to be incredibly popular in America. But, how do I adjust to modern times? John Philip Sousa Nothing says band like, John Philips Sousa. He was a famous composer and band leader in the late 1800’s and early…
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Christian School Band Directing
In 1990 I began a 26 year journey in christian school band directing. Those years would have as much, or more effect on me than they had on my students. Getting started My first two years of directing at a public middle school were unpleasant to say the least. They wanted me to return for…
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At the Crossroads
You can look back and see moments where you were at the crossroads. The problem is that, most of the time, you can’t see those moments coming. One of my crossroad’s moments occurred in the school year 2015 – 2016. I was blissfully skipping along and doing my work, with no idea that up ahead…
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God, Life and Fear
I’m on a journey with God, traveling through fear and into life. I believe that God exists and that He actively works in His creation. But, that hasn’t automatically translated into a fearless life. God and fear I grew up going to church. I have numerous memories of being in our Baptist Church in Irwin,…
