I have a new job. This week I will be taking over as the minster of music at my church. This is extremely exciting to me, and I have had a hard time keeping this news from all of you, but I had to wait for it become official and announced and all that. You […]
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2012 Highlight Reel
Wow. Another year, come and gone. It’s hard to believe. But since this is the last day of 2012, and tomorrow we all get to start a new year, with all of the hope and possibility that that entails, it seems like a good time to reflect on the past year of life. Thank goodness […]
NaNoWriMo
Apparently, November is NaNoWriMo, which, as you already know, obviously stands for “National Novel Writing Month.” And I have decided to participate. I have until the end of the month to write a novel of 50,000 words or more. And it is terrifying and exciting. Part of the deal is that you are supposed to […]
Two Years of Tenor Dad
Today is Tenor Dad’s birthday. Well, not my birthday of course; my birthday is in April. No, today marks the date when, two years ago, the Tenor Dad experience came into being. Since then I have never missed a day of posting (except for weekends and holidays), and thus gave fulfilled my goal, set forth […]
Early Morning Photo Shoot
When I started Tenor Dad around two years ago, I needed to choose a picture for my avatar, and I didn’t know what to choose. A picture of myself? A picture of my kids? A picture of me singing on stage? What felt right? What could possibly capture everything that I wanted these pages to […]
My First Angry Troll
I suppose it had to happen eventually. When you write things and post them on the internet, you are making yourself vulnerable. That is part of what being an artist is in the first place. Whether you sing on stage, act, paint, write, or otherwise create, you have to make yourself vulnerable, to criticism, indifference, […]
Glossary of Terms
It occurs to me that sometimes I use words, names, or phrases that you might not recognize, unless you are related to me or have read every single blog posting I have ever written. In an effort to be more clear, I have created this glossary of Tenor Dad terms that I can then link […]
Disclaimer: May Be Fully Or Partially Ridiculous
This is just a note to say that, to those of you who might be new to reading Tenor Dad, it is often very silly. I have noticed in the comments that sometimes people will respond to something as if they thought I was being very serious, when in fact much of what I write […]
The Closing of the Year
So that’s it. 2011 is pretty much over. The next time I write and post something, it will be in 2012. END OF DAYS! Or not. I guess we’ll see. But whether we all explode in a Mayan fireball, or just slowly kill our own selves off by drilling pipelines and shopping at Wal*Mart, the […]
Does Ruby Need a Tumblr Account?
I’m thinking of starting a Tumblr page for Ruby’s quotes of the day. Any thoughts on this from my rabid fan base? I like my long-form blogging on this site, but I feel that quotes are really too short to be posting as blogs here. On the other hand, many of them are too long […]