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TKA 2012 and family
The King’s Academy (TKA) 2012 marching season was a high point for my family. I had moved my young family to this Florida school in 2000. Now my kids were in their teen years and part of the band program. Mom and Dad Dad was a payroll supervisor at Fisher Body outside of Pittsburgh. That’s…
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Meeting my wife part 2
Last week I began telling the story of my how I met my wife. Today’s post is “meeting my wife part 2”. If you haven’t read part 1, click here so you can read the beginning of the story. Waiting My roommate was working a late shift at J Crew, but I was determined to…
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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…
