Texas, Part 5 and Thanksgiving

I have been necessarily brief in this little diary this week. My students are preparing a more comprehensive report from their own perspectives, to be sent to The American Organist magazine. It's going to be good! I am so very proud of them and their attention to American organ building history.

After Kilgore/Longview, it was back to Boone for the students and off to Houston for me, to play a recital at St. Philip Presbyterian. That went awfully well, considering I had not practiced for a week, thanks to Kilgore. Great conferences are usually bad for practicing.

And now, I'm comfortably seated in an easy chair at my sister's in Dothan, Ala., in front of a fire, surrounded by cats and family. That's the good news. The bad news is I'm watching the Cowboys get soundly trounced by the Redskins.

And my thoughts go out to the victims and their families of the pileup on Interstate 10 near Beaumont, Tex., today. It's awfully creepy to know that I passed that very way in my car just a few short days ago.