The Yankee Chef ®

  For the past 5 years, Thomas has been enamored by his great great aunt Marion Bailey. She would have been 99 years old in less then a mont...

  I simply cannot believe that 25 years have gone by and I still miss my father as much as the day he passed. I think it is more profound no...

  This post is about children and how to get them more inclined to concerts and the orchestra. For teens, that is a little more difficult an...

. ...and then there were none.   The days of children picking up an instrument at an early age are slowly waning. I am not talking about ban...

 I have been meaning to write a blog post about this for a very long time, which is a travesty to begin with because this behavior seems to ...

 I have never gone this long without posting something and the guilt finally caught up with me.   Even though I should be out in the woods g...

I wanted to share a brief post and link to a very special young man. My son Thomas, who is 12 years old, has made the final cut of of this w...