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There is a song I love that lifts up an interesting concept: God’s ability to give beauty for ashes. I’ve noticed sometimes there is great beauty, wisdom, and even joy to be found in those ashes. The last year or so, I’ve had an intense personal struggle ...

At the mall, I noticed an old lady wearing a coat just like mine. With her head down, she seemed to be mindful of where she stepped.

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There are songs loaded with enough touching sentiments destined to defy passing trends and years. 

The death earlier this week of one of my boyhood singing idols, Bobby Rydell, made me recall the joy of seeing him and the two other Philly legends, Frankie Avalon and Fabian, in concert six years ago...

If you know Kitty Kallen at all, it probably is subliminally. Her 1945 number one hit recording of “It’s Been a Long, Long Time” plays during the closing credits of “Avengers: Endgame.” A few years earlier, her 1954 number one hit “Little Things Mean a Lot” served as the musical motif for “Circle of Friends” (the movie in which Minnie Driver has a crush on Chris O’Donnell’s character). A newly published screenplay, “Little Things Mean ...