Memories and Music  By Jessica Ewy “Where words fail, music speaks” ~ Hans Christian Andersen  Music is powerful. It has the ability to change your mood, bring you into the community with others and help you remember long ago moments lost by time and age. My life is...

My Covid Road Trip II By Don Wall   “I’m Thankful That Old Road Is A Friend Of Mine” “Snowin’ on Raton” by Townes Van Zandt We left the August heat of Dallas and headed northwest through the wind farms and oil fields of West Texas and stayed in Raton, New Mexico, and...

My COVID Road Trip By Don Wall   Comes a time to put sand under my feet When the days start feeling same old After all I still know life is sweet When I just get up and go  That’s the first verse of a new song I’m writing after a three-week road trip in mid-June...

Music and the Spiritual world By Alexis Tapp My friend, Ben, recently asked me to write something for the DSA blog.  I told him I had no idea what I could contribute to the blog or its readers, and he said, “Come on, let’s not have too many slices of Humble Pie,...

THE POWER OF STAY AT HOME by Barbara McMillen Sometimes I feel like a baby bird not quite ready to fly, waiting for my food to be delivered by my birdie parents, Walmart. There were exceptions. I went out to pick up groceries twice at Kroger and Sam’s.  This is the...