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  • Life is a Highway – Rascal Flatts

    Welcome to Tune Talk! Liner Notes Artist Rascal Flatts Song Life is a Highway Album Cars (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Year 2006 If our first Tune Talk post was about taking flight, this one is about hitting the pavement. While Tom Cochrane’s version is the original, the Rascal Flatts cover has become the “go-to” in…

  • Gourmet Popcorn

    We recently spent a day walking around Peddler’s Village in Lahaska PA. It’s a fun place to go and spend some time shopping, having a nice meal, or attending one of their many fun seasonal events. We used to like going a couple of times a year, but as we entered the world of baseball,…

  • Learning To Fly – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

    Welcome to our first Tune Talk post! We will pick a new song each time to talk about and rate as a family, and of course, invite you to join in the discussion! Liner Notes Artist Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Song Learning To Fly Album Into The Great Wide Open Year 1991 As we…

  • Happy Mother’s Day

    “A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” -Erma Bombeck I have always admired the writing and humor of Erma Bombeck. She had a hilarious way of taking the monotony of everyday life and turning it into something…

  • On the Open Road

    Welcome to The Renaissance Road – I’m glad you’re here. If you’ve checked out my About Us page, you already have a broad sense of some of the things I am interested in. But I wanted this first post to lay out exactly what I’m doing here. For a long time, I co-ran a food…