By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. In 1961 Clarence “Frogman” Henry breathed life into the old standard, “You Always Hurt the One You Love.” It was written in 1944 by Allan Roberts with music by Doris Fisher. Recorded first by The Mills Brothers it lasted 20 weeks on the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart. …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. This is a story about death and remembrance, one of the most difficult of subjects; universal reality for every human… but one we approach with the utmost diffidence, wanting to make the troubling matter which touches upon our own mortality short, clean,crisp, so that the experience is sanitized …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. If you were around in 1961 and were of a teen-age disposition, your trips to the soda shoppe were frequent and your search for The Sound was never-ending, punctuated as they were by gales of laughter, the hope for a class ring from that special someone bestowed during …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant The summer of 2011 ended (unofficially) in the United States on Labor Day, as it always does; this year it fell on September 5th. If you’re like me you jumped up on your desk and did your happy dance, delighted to see the back of the worst summer most of us …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s Program Note: Are you a tax-paying American? Then today’s article will not merely irritate or anger you; it will enrage you. It is the story of stupidity, of waste, of fraud, of corruption — and of a government asleep at the switch; it’s all too frequent position. There are three …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. This article absolutely requires a musical background, and I have just the piece for it: “You gotta get a gimmick.” It’s a song from one of the best Broadway shows ever, “Gypsy”, which opened in 1959. Many great ladies of the theatre have headlined as Rose, the ultimate …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant If you’re using the Internet to build your business and don’t yet have a blog, you’re making a very serious error. Blogs are crucial for running a business, including helping grow organizations with a message for the world. To see just how important a blog can be, consider the case of …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant I want you to know, right from the start: I am tattoo- phobic, have been my whole life. I’m not, and I mean ever, going to give some total stranger with a needle the chance to “improve” upon what God gave me, and so amply. No way. I wish further to …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. To understand the point of this article, the point of Maya Angelou’s complaint about paraphrasing the great words of one of history’s most influential speakers on his very monument, you must love both language and precision. And above all you must love the truth. At age 83, Angelou …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. To understand the point of this article, the point of Maya Angelou’s complaint about paraphrasing the great words of one of history’s most influential speakers on his very monument, you must love both language and precision. And above all you must love the truth. At age 83, Angelou …