LaVonne Neff > LIVELY DUST

A friend  asked on Facebook, "How are you going to sustain yourself emotionally and spiritually in the coming months and years?" I...

David recently posted this picture on Facebook along with a line from the 1964 hit  "Today" (New Christy Minstrels):   "I...

It seemed appropriate last week, when my dentist was replacing five fillings, to show him the book I was reading: The Tooth Tattoo by Briti...

Thanks to my friend Anne Buchanan, who recommended Morag Joss 's Sara Selkirk mysteries. Anne knows the kind of mysteries I like best. I...

After writing 21 detective novels featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, it's not surprising that author  Donna Leon needed a break. Sti...

Les Misérables  - the film - opened yesterday, and David and I were in back row center (my favorite seats) for the six o'clock showing. ...

The Andrews Sisters A lot of my Facebook friends are sharing links to the number-one hit song on the day of their birth. Listening to th...

This evening Mr Neff and I ate dinner to the music of Mavis Staples in her new album, You Are Not Alone , produced by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco ...

Even when I was very small I hated the Sunday-school song that begins O be careful little eyes what you see O be careful little eyes what...

Forty-two years ago today, Mr Neff and I publicly vowed to love and cherish one another "for better for worse, for richer for poorer, i...

Last week a friend who knows my dogs sent me a link to Wendy Francisco’s wildly popular new song, “God and Dog” (over half a million views ...

A friend just e-mailed: "But you don't have any happy songs for yesterday (and, hopefully, today)!" Mea culpa. I was thinking ...

What goes up must come down Wall Street, Main Street got to go round Jesus drives a Prius, GM suffers for its sin Take another aspiri...

Someone let my money down the drain... I don't think that I can take it Cuz it took so long to make it And I'll never have retiremen...

Good-bye, droopy Tuesday Now the Dow is black and blue My funds shrink with every new day Dollars, gonna miss you...

I grew up singing "O Worship the King," a 200-year-old hymn written by Robert Grant, a British MP and social reformer. It includes...

“Is That All There Is” is one interpretation of Ecclesiastes (“This is what I have seen to be good: it is fitting to eat and drink and find...

A friend in her mid 30s tells me “Is That All There Is” is her favorite song. She especially likes the part about dancing and breaking out...