3 Ways to Make Money With a Podcast If you’ve been looking into the possibility of starting one”or if you already have one, you might also be looking into how to make money with a podcast. After all, it’s only natural. Radio and TV programs have been doing that for decades. And podcasts have been sources of income for their owners for quite a … Read the rest…
Catchy Songs Have Fringe Benefits Helen’s world had lost its sparkle. A typical day, for her, included hours of staring forward with a blank look on her face. It seemed the only thing she was aware of was that it was daytime. One day Alicia, a music therapist, came to the dementia center where Helen lived, and life began to open up again. Alicia … Read the rest…
Greetings and salutations fellow humans Dear Mom. Or…Hi babe. Just a couple of ways people start letters and emails these days. No composition or journalistic award winners there. But they get the job done, I suppose. And who cares anyway, right? Well, besides me I guess. I’ve been a fan of language and vocabulary from almost the time I could speak. So, I’m partial … Read the rest…
Sight and Sound a great way to be found The first time I saw a comedienne do the “squirrel joke”, I almost did a spit take. It’s a joke about how attention spans are so short and distracted these days. Kinda like a dog that suddenly spots a squirrel. Focus is one place one second, then a completely different place a couple of seconds … Read the rest…
I’ve been reading, lately, where at least a few Christians are starting to question the merit of contemporary praise and worship music. And before you younger ones try to tell me it’s the old fuddy duddies, this isn’t just coming from older Christians. And I’m glad to see it. Because I’ve listened to just about all the mantra music, in church, I care to. … Read the rest…
A little mood music never hurt anybody Watch any old Western movie, and it’s a good bet you’re gonna see a hootenanny, or a barn dance, or some other sort of soiree “˜neath the big Western sky. And the minute the music starts, folks are gonna dance their boots off. As far as I can tell, the music seemed to put everybody in a … Read the rest…
Show and Tell To Help You Sell I was in the second or third grade when I heard about show and tell for the first time. The teacher asked each of us to bring our favorite present we’d gotten for Christmas after we came back from Christmas break. Yeah, they called it Christmas break back then, but I digress. Anyway, the concept was totally … Read the rest…