By the time you read this article, I will be unemployed for only the second time since 1970.  Okay, being retired isn’t exactly like being unemployed, but it probably will feel like …

Greetings – just a quick note to remind visitors to this site that I am retiring from the Ontonagon Area Schools as of June 30, 2018 – it is hard to believe that I have had the honor of wo…

      Ritchie Blackmore claims that there are two or three of him.  He even has a hospital surveillance video to prove it. The police visited him recently and asked if he was the man picture…

      The picturesque Italian village of Amalfi claims to have an illustrious maritime tradition, although the harbor there barely holds the couple of boats that remain in the local fishing f…

      Cover Me is the name of an album we received a while ago from two time vets of the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival, Jimi and the Band of Souls.  It is a collection of songs written b…

   Ever hear of Peggy James?  I am willing to bet after her new album Nothing In Between drops in late June, she won’t be such a well kept secret.  James is a Milwaukee singer/songwriter who ha…