Favorites: Let me tell you a story about favorites

Daily writing promptWhat's your all-time favorite album?View all responses Focusing on a favorite? I'd have to pick the "Live in London" album by Leonard Cohen. Despite Leonard being reduced to about five notes, his mastery of his voice, the sentiment, and the composition is flawless. I can spend an hour lost in his music easily. …

American Pie

Thinking about favorite albums and performers this morning led me down some twisty corridors of memory. I wound up in a seldom-visited cul de sac on Boston's Beacon Hill. Another folksinger living in the next building was in talks with a major label. Rumors of an album were floated. Whenever something important like this happened in …

And a one, and a two

Daily writing promptWhat's your all-time favorite album?View all responses Labels can define you. They are not you, but they can place you in time and space, give people inaccurate hunches about who you are, and put actual thought on a snooze alert. So be careful with giving away information about yourself that sticks you in a niche. Admitting that …