by Elizabeth Taggart | Oct 27, 2026 | Musings
The Road Route 66 was always much more than just a convenient route from point A to point B. Officially established on November 11, 1926, as part of America’s new numbered Federal highway system, “America’s Main Street” was the road that would finally connect...
by Elizabeth Taggart | Oct 27, 2026 | Musings
More than 75 singers with Sounds Good Choir gathered at Chicago’s Navy Pier on a recent morning in October to sing one of the all-time great hits about a highway; spoiler, it wasn’t Canned Heat’s 1968 “On the Road Again” and they weren’t auditioning for American Idol....
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Oct 26, 2026 | Musings
In the first of a three-part series, co-founders Jonathan Miller and Sandy Siegel Miller shared their story of developing the vision to create new Good Memories choirs, including a location on the South Side. In Part II, they tell you more about how the South Side...
by Sandy Siegel Miller | Oct 6, 2026 | Musings
Two things recently happened on the same day that I can’t stop thinking about. The first was an article in the New York Times, where psychologist Angela Duckworth, in her editorial, “I Study Successful People; They Have One Habit in Common,” wrote...
by Sounds Good | Jun 29, 2026 | Musings
We often think of singing as a joyful pastime or creative outlet, but a growing body of research indicates that there are also significant physical health benefits of singing as we age. It engages multiple systems in the body at once, from the heart and lungs to pain...
by Jonathan Miller, Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Sounds Good Choir | Jun 5, 2026 | Musings
It was bound to happen. I just didn’t think it would be today. Or this year. Or this decade. This morning, at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, as Sandy and I were going through security on the way home from vacation, the friendly and patient young woman from...
