I wanted to take a moment and reflect on 2013 and the things that happened during this past year. I also wanted to take a look at my resolutions or goals for this past year and see how I did. I didn’t just make resolutions in January of 2013 and never look back on them.…
I love Christmas music, of all kinds, and all demoninations. I love to play Christmas music whether it is playing trombone in a full orchestra or brass quartet or euphonium or tuba in a TubaChristmas concert. I love the sounds and the merriment. But I know that some people loathe it, with a passion! I’m…
We need to take time to celebrate; we need to celebrate the little things and the big things. It’s not very often that I have celebrated things at work with more than a toast. As a lawyer, I’ve worked on hundred of deals and seen many contracts signed, licenses negotiated, and so on; but these…
My grandfather, Glasco Rector, was an amazing man. He kept his head down and worked hard. He was a man of few words. He was a Marine and served in Guadalcanal in WWII, where he survived being shot. He returned from the war to my grandmother Edith and made a family of 4 children, started…