Waymaker – Tramaine Hawkins

It’s the early 1990’s, possibly even the very late 1980’s, but if it is that late, they can’t get in and we’ll have to leave it at the early 1990’s.  At the time I was being very conscious of the music played by my sister and my mother.  I remember seeing the album cover of […]

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Oh The Glory Of Your Presence

There are a number of versions of this song doing the rounds going from efforts like this to more solo black-gospel style versions.  It’s not uncommon to hear this sung in crusades and large meetings from tele-evangelists, etc.  (I’ll leave that to you to decipher if that’s a good or bad thing, but it is […]

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Dealing With The Difference

We are never the same.  When we say things like you haven’t changed what we actually mean is that any actual change we take as negligible or see enough of what we’re used to not to bother about anything different.  In reality as each new day brings new challenges and even if the responses are […]

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First Contact

Recently I was celebrating the birthday of my dear old mother and I do mean ‘dear’, and I do mean ‘mother’ and I do mean … So I was on about her and in reflecting the significant role she plays in my life since the beginning I recalled again that she was the first contact […]

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