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Laughing Matters

In the early 1990s, when I was in my late 30s, I lived in Huntington Woods, a small suburb of...

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Deet Deetle Deet

I’m at choir rehearsal. A “Brünhilde” soprano asks me, can I arrange piano accompaniment for her next concert? An unpublished John Denver tune? With three chords? C (deet deetle deet), F (deet deetle deet), G (deet deetle...

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Ghost Story

John Cain played trumpet in my big band, the II-V-I Orchestra, for about 20 years. He died...

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Note to Self Re: Next Christmas

Remember 2016 was hard. If you are a Hillary fan, a democracy fan, a fan of this country, a Wolverines fan, a Tigers fan, a Lions fan – just about everything you could root for lost. Defeat after defeat after defeat. But what...

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The Young@Heart #WCDP

January 9, 2016: I arrived early for a powwow of the Washtenaw County Democratic Party (WCDP), dutifully signed in and then wrote my name in big, bold and blue capital letters on a HELLO MY NAME IS sticker. A smiling Chris...

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Michigan’s Waterloo Connections

June’s bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo passed largely unnoticed in Michigan. But the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and the site of his final defeat, are still remembered in the names of Napoleon and Waterloo...

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