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A Crock of Schmidt

Single-handedly solving nothing

My Life Is A Song #102

December 29, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Connections.  Arguably one of the top five non-fictional, science programs of all time, Connections was a stellar late-seventies BBC program about science and history and how seemingly unrelated events combined to get us to where we are today.  Or in the case of its original broadcast, 1978.  I became infatuated with this program in my […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: Connections, country, music, radio, TV, vintage

My Life Is A Song #84

November 25, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

1995. My entire life as it currently exists (in this known universe) can be traced back to one decision set in motion that year.  Okay, the decision was actually made in 1994, but it all happened starting in 1995 and it led directly, though circuitously, to where I am now and all that surrounds me. […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: Alberta, country, cowboy, shame, Stampede, university

My Life Is A Song #82

November 11, 2016 by acrockofschmidt 2 Comments

For reasons that defy deep scrutiny, this song more than any other, encapsulates Alberta to me.  In particular, the rural community I’ve been privy to visit sporadically thanks to my aunt and uncle who’ve lived in such surroundings for the past thirty-five years.  I realize this association doesn’t make much sense.  The poor, Southern, coal-mining […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: Alabama, Alberta, country, fiddle

My Life Is A Song #74

September 16, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

I don’t think I have a story to share with this song.  Not all songs need a story, I suppose.  It’s a great song.  Perhaps that is enough.  If I were to write anything here to make this post longer than a Tweet, I guess I would question why any woman would willingly go by […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, country, Eighties, music

My Life Is A Song #73

September 9, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

For a few years bookending the turn of the millennium, another wonderful tradition played out at my aunt and uncle’s small farm in central Alberta.  I speak, of course, of the legendary New Year’s Eve bonfires.  During the preceding year a healthy stockpile of wood based refuse, be it windfall from around the farm or […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: country, harmony, New Year's, Oak Ridge Boys

Pizza Night in Rowley, Alberta – review

August 2, 2016 by acrockofschmidt 2 Comments

Sams Saloon on Pizza Night

If there’s one thing I’d pinpoint as the worst part of being a stay-at-home parent it has to be the fact that long weekends quickly lose their exceptionality.  Not only do they become meaningless with regard to my daily life, but they all too regularly become completely forgotten.  Such was the case this past August […]

Filed Under: Travel Schmidt Tagged With: Alberta, country, ghost town, pizza, Prairies, Rowley

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