“Bad Hair Day” And Words About Hair

by Kevin Burton    Today’s list from Merriam-Webster, words about hair, got me thinking about the term, “bad hair day.”    Is bad hair day an idiom?    The dictionary says an idiom is, “an expression in the usage of a language that has a meaning that cannot be understood from the combined meanings of its …

Drift Away: The Healing Power Of Music

by Kevin Burton    Let me be clear: the beat, the rock and roll beat, does not free one’s soul.  But in the secular sense it sure frees something.     And that’s the heart of the great 1973 song “Drift Away.”    Lawrence Darrow Brown was born in Simonton, Texas on this day in 1940.  …