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What You Never Knew – Jessica Hamilton

Would you return to a family-owned island 30 years after an event that ripped your family apart? In Jessica Hamilton’s new psychological thriller What You Never Knew, Jane Bennett did just that…. When she was a child, June Bennett‘s family spent their summers on Avril Island in Lake Champlain. The …

The Wife Stalker – Liv Constantine

Ok so I guess it’s time to put to rest the idea that abbook like The Wife Stalker is not the type of book I typically read. I guess it’s more appropriate to say it’s one of the various types of books I read. In fact I’ve read more of …

Top 20 Psychedelic Rock Songs Playlist Brightened Sunday’s Run

One of the top 20 Psychedelic rock songs

So this week started as a good running week. On Sunday I ran my first 6.2 mile (10K) training run. While I ran comfortably at a 10:30 pace through the first three miles, the next three were a struggle and I needed to slow down to make the 6.2 miles. …

A Great Run and Soundtrack from Shaw Davis and the Black Ties!

Red Sun Rebellion - Shaw Davis and the Black Ties

I’ll use one word, stolen from motivational speaker Jack Daly, to describe today’s run – BAM! The weather provided near perfect running conditions this morning and thankfully I was able to take advantage of them. I really didn’t have any great expectations for the run. However, when I finished the first …

A Genealogical Wonder

Ok so my wife and I both do a lot of genealogical researc. However, I don’t think that either of us have come across anything as convoluted as this…. Steve Goodman left us way too soon way back in 1984! And I still miss him and wonder I what he …

New Jazz and New Age from Princeton Record Exchange. – Part 1

So last Thursday my wife went to the New Jersey State Archives to look for dead people. Which is what I call her genealogical research. Anyway I took off for The Princeton Record Exchange. (PRE) looking for some jazz and New Age treasures. I was armed with the remainder of …

Brothers – Oster, Ackerman and Eaton Start My Week Right!

Brothers - Will Ackerman, Jeff Oster and Tom Eaton

So I was initially going to do a full workout this morning. Then I realized that today is Monday and I would typically be working at Target in the morning. That means I would only be doing a short yoga routine before work. Then at work I’d get a full …

Why I’m Back at Me,Myself Music and Mysteries…

….And Hopefully Moving Forward For the longest time I have been obsessed with the idea that my blog should be narrowed to one jspecific topic. If I a write about music, I should only write about Blues or Jazz or Prog. Conversely my writing about books should focus only mysteries …

A Good Kill from John McMahon. Book 3 in a Great Series!

Ok so I had started this post as a welcome back post, but Ill’ll save that doesn’t the next post let’s just get back to the mysteries. And here’s a good one……. A Good Kill (Detective P.T. Marsh #3) Today I finished A Good Kill by John McMahon. It is …

Mike Zito -Resurrection Makes a Good Run Great!

The following was posted earlier this week on Renaissance Granddad I thought I’d catch you up a bit before I post about today’s run! The Run Oh, what a difference a cloudy sky and a temperature that is a few degrees lower make on a morning run! I have been …

Me, Myself, Music & Mysteries