Author Archives: Rick Vale



Rick Vale

A LITTLE GIRL WITH WINGS
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A LITTLE GIRL WITH WINGS

Every once in a while, when you travel, you experience moments like this (actually they happen more often these days). We were in the airport getting ready to board our...

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August 12, 2025
IF I KNEW THEN...
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IF I KNEW THEN…

Maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s something else, but lately I’ve been obsessively fantasizing, and even had dreams about, going back and starting over…beginning with my Freshman Year in High...

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August 05, 2025
SUNDAY MORNING RITUAL
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SUNDAY MORNING RITUAL

Every Sunday morning, I have a tradition or ritual, if you will, when I arrive at the Church Building. This “ritual” started as things that needed to be done by...

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July 22, 2025
CATASTROPHE
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CATASTROPHE

Sometimes, often, the news is devastating, shocking and altogether too familiar.  We, who have lived more than a few years, are used to the fact that disasters, natural or otherwise,...

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July 15, 2025
TEACHERS & STUDENTS
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TEACHERS & STUDENTS

She was as colorful a person as you would like to meet; my first piano teacher, Mrs. Beardsley.  With a smoker’s cough, low voice, and a pink living room (I especially...

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June 30, 2025
MICHAEL
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MICHAEL

Each June (PRIDE month) I think about my friend, Michael.  Michael was a conductor, chorus master, lecturer, author, musicologist, accompanist, and my vocal coach when I performed opera.  He was...

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June 24, 2025
YA GOT TROUBLE!
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YA GOT TROUBLE!

My favorite Broadway musical of all time is “THE MUSIC MAN”.  There is something about the combination of the setting: America at the turn of the century, the story-unique boy-meets-girl, the music-ballads,...

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June 10, 2025