On the shelf

by Kevin T McEneaney There is a new science about aging. The name of the three-hundred-page-plus book is Ageless, a volume that speculates on improving body telomeres and mitochondrial quality…

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Julia Hamos Excites at Millbrook Music Salon

by Kevin T McEneaney Pianist Julia Hamos from Hungary is an international sensation. It seems amazing to me that she is here playing in Millbrook for The Millbrook Music salon,…

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Still counting

by Kevin T McEneaney Humans remain proud of their big brains, yet whales and elephants have bigger brains. Dolphins swim as substantial brainiacs. Small brains can be sharp, sophisticated, as…

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Spring musings

by Kevin T McEneaney Billowing rain batters, rattles windows. Children puddle-stomp with boots and rain hats, delighting in splashing arcs of water… Streams gush, overflowing with melted snow…. * Breezes…

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St. Patrick’s Day

by Kevin T McEneaney Saint Patrick’s Day was placed on the RC universal church calendar as a feast day in the early 1600s. If Saint Patrick’s Day falls during Holy…

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Sunrise

by Kevin T McEneaney While the sun appears to rise in the East, we are aware that it is an illusion due to the Earth spinning on its axis. We…

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“The Songbird” at Cresendo Event

by Kevin T McEneaney Monody was invented at the Medici court in Florence around 1580 by Vincenzo Galilei, father of the astronomer Galileo, who set a passage from his son’s…

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Operetta with a Smile At Bard Sosnoff

by Kevin T McEneaney Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Graduate Vocal Arts Program produced its annual Spring concert under the baton of James Bagwell. The program centered upon…

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Everlasting echo

by Kevin T McEneaney If you hear static on the radio, you are hearing the Big Bang afterglow, which resonates throughout the universe. * We are still attempting to understand…

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