Picturepocket's Blog

Category: music

  • Godspell

    Godspell

    Vulture published an article last week interviewing Victor Garber, the actor who played Jesus in both the Toronto stage play and the Hollywood production of Godspell in the early 1970s. Apparently the stage cast included Eugene Levi, Martin Short, Andrea Martin, and Gilda Radner, several of the famous funny people that I grew up watching…

  • 90s Summers

    90s Summers

    On the Internet, people were commenting that they wanted to do a summer like the 1990s. So now you get to hear about what I remember from summers growing up.  My mom used to work during day and my dad would be home with in the days over the summer break. He worked the swing…

  • Life in the Margins

    One of the things that I am trying to do better with the kids is to build in margins. If we all have to be somewhere at a set time, then I schedule the drive time and parking. Then I add the time that it will take to find the children’s shoes and also go…

  • America’s Got Talent

    Anyone can learn anything, the mind and body can be trained to do something new.

  • Keys to Success

    When I was in fourth grade, my family moved into Married Student Housing so my father could go to graduate school. The apartments came with a small shared music practice room that included an old upright piano. One summer, my mom signed me up for lessons at the rec center and I would practice every…