by Dr. Jeffrey Lant. It was the call one dreads to hear, the call that one has pondered, tried to dodge, done everything to avoid but which at the end will occur, “Your dearly beloved is on the door step of eternity, soon to go into the sweet by and by. This is your notice.” …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Here is the most important four-letter word in the entire English language: home. It conjures up and is connected to every element of the well-lived life: spouse, family, peace, comfort, security. Nothing can match its importance, nothing can duplicate its significance. Nothing is more powerful than our memories …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note! Do you know the great Irish tenor John McCormack? If not, your grandmother surely did. “I tell you Mary Louise, he has the voice of an angel, an angel…” One of the multitude of songs he popularized and made his own was the famous tune “Silver threads among …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. We are sorry to learn that one of the most enduring personalities of Hollywood and Post World War II America, Zsa Zsa Gabor, is seriously ill. First, then, we must wish her well… for she has amused and titillated so many, giving the glamorless majority an aperture into …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant I am now at the stage of life where one of the unexpected pleasures is the satisfaction and serenity one gets from a will well done. Should you be a youngster of say, 45 or so, you might regard the creation of a will as the most onerous of nagging responsibilities. …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Today I turn 64, having entered this life February 16, 1947. Thatmakes me a certified Baby Boomer, a member in good standingof a petted generation that has touched, for good and ill, virtually everythingon this planet, incising its deep mark far and wide. We started life as heirs to creation; now …