Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward.

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.

But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

I didn't know what I was. I didn't have a noun.

You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie Couric, the Tri Delt from Virginia who became America's sweetheart on the 'Today' show. But her ratings have been dismal - she comes in last place every week.

Falling in love with Renee was not the kind of thing you walk away from in one piece. I had no chance. She put a hitch in my git-a-long.