Better Together

Better Together

We stand side by side, we support each other and make each other better, and we know that the whole is so much richer than the individual sum of its parts. Every once in a while, Jon and I take a pause and reflect on what we hope to accomplish with Sounds Good and...
Caregiver Blog Gone Awry

Caregiver Blog Gone Awry

I’m not a person for whom the word “serendipity” yields feelings of excitement and curiosity. I’m a planner: I like to know what’s going to happen next and hold as dear the illusion that I know how things are going to turn out. So, one of the reluctantly learned...
The Value of Forgiveness, Any Day of the Year

The Value of Forgiveness, Any Day of the Year

Although there’s no confusion, in my mind at least, about the importance of forgiveness, there seems to be quite a bit of confusion about the national acknowledgement of that. My internet search found a “National Forgiveness Week” in June, a “National Forgiveness Day”...
Music, Memory, and Chocolate Custard

Music, Memory, and Chocolate Custard

The summer I was 13, and the following two summers, before I turned 16 and could apply for a “real” job, I worked at Tasty Freeze, a local frozen custard shop owned by a friend of my older brother, Jack. I suppose there was some abuse of child-labor rules, but I loved...