• Connections

    Quality Driveway Delivery

    Mom’s still not getting her morning paper delivered to her front stoop; the Salt Lake Tribune’s “Quality Driveway Delivery” means she still has to get all dressed just to get the news. I sent an email to the Home Delivery Manager at the Trib, and if she doesn’t start getting her paper on the porch soon, it may be time to pick up the phone and call some honchos. My niece Holly got porch delivery reinstated, so Mom ought to be able to get it, too. Here’s the list, right handy: Find an Employee Search Results

  • Music

    The Defiant Requiem

    NPR : Verdi’s Requiem Revived as WWII Tribute I heard my friend Debbie singing on the radio the other morning… she’s one of the musicians that performed this piece! When she told me about the project I was so thrilled for her, because she’s had some amazing performance opportunities with the Washington Chorus, and this one just gave me chills when she told me about it. According to the NPR story we heard Monday morning, they performed Verdi’s Requiem (AKA, the Defiant Requiem) on Sunday in the Terezin concentration camp (she tells me the performance space had been an old…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Trainwreck Confessional

    Dog has his day despite tragedy | Chicago Tribune HONOLULU — Duane “Dog” Chapman, star of A&E’s reality show “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” has married his longtime sidekick, Beth Smith. The sunset ceremony on the Big Island took place Saturday, a day after the death of Chapman’s daughter. Barbara Katy Chapman, 23, was killed in a car accident near her home of Fairbanks, Alaska. Okay, first of all, that’s pretty sad. Trainwreck though their lives may be, losing a child on is bad enough, I have to confess that I occasionally watch “Dog The Bounty Hunter.” I know all about…