Last month was a particularly poignant time for me, attending three memorials for dear friends in the jazz community. All led significant and sharing lives and lived them for a long time with the exception of writer-poet-master teacher Marc Crawford who died in 1996 at the age of 66. Marc, a high school dropout from Detroit Read More
COME WHAT MAY: THOUGHTS ABOUT A KEY MONTH OF ANY BASEBALL SEASON
May 13, 2010
Against my better judgment I attended one of the three Oriole-Yankee games at Yankee Stadium in early May. Predictably, despite being fresh from a three-game sweep over the Red Sox at home, Baltimore reverted to form and played Washington Generals to the Yankees’ Harlem Globetrotters as they have been doing with numbing regularity in Read More