Play Me a Tune, Sing Me a Song

There’s good medicine in good music.
Play Me a Tune, Sing Me a Song
Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) sings in the memorable sequence, in "Singin' in the Rain." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Jeff Minick
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“You are what you eat.”
We’ve all heard that old nostrum regarding our health. In my years as a bookseller, “you are what you read” was a recurring refrain. In truth, of course, each of us is the sum of all of our experiences—what we see, hear, and feel.
Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.