It makes perfect sense to buy insurance for your car or house or other personal reasons. Writer singer illustrator, Tony Funderburk, says eternal life with God makes the Most Perfect Sense It makes the most perfect sense to get eternal insurance that’s already been paid for. I mean…c’mon…if you believe your “stuff” is important enough to insure…don’t you believe your soul is, to? Let’s … Read the rest…
Someone asked me, recently, if I had ever sung a wedding song or had ever sung in any weddings. I smiled to myself because I immediately saw myself as a 19 year old young kid singing in my first wedding. Not MY wedding…the first wedding I had been asked to sing for. It was my girlfriend’s sister’s wedding, a Catholic affair in a small … Read the rest…
Back in 1990 I was living in Colorado during a time of depressed economy and a general feeling of lack. But I wasn’t letting it get me down. I actually wrote quite a few songs that year. Some of them were pretty good, and I still play them. Others were more forgettable, but that’s the way songwriting is. I remember feeling like I was … Read the rest…
If you’ve lived long enough to be able to read this, I’m sure you’ve thrown at least a little money into a wishing well. True? As I was working on something else in the past few hours it rained a lot here at the FunderRanch. And as I often do, I gazed outside the window for a bit. There was a group of objects … Read the rest…
Most of us can only imagine what it must be like to be in the movies. When I was a full-time road musician and entertainer, I often found myself in the movies in some small to medium sized town. Oftentimes there wouldn’t be much else to do during the day while I waited to do my show each night. Back then I could still … Read the rest…
Sometimes you just have to look on the back. When the Beatles were releasing 45 rpm records back in the 60’s, their current radio hit was always “Side A” or “Side 1”. But since their music was so catchy, their fans just had to look on the back and see what the other song was. Maybe you’ve never done this, but a lot of … Read the rest…
Friday Island
Welcome to Friday Island. This is where you can walk the beach with no shoes and feel the warm sand between your toes. You might notice the balmy, salty air drift by your nose and tickle your ears. Out in the water you can hear the friendly waves bouncing around playfully. And you might even see a fish splash out of the blue and … Read the rest…