As is the case from time to time, the entry that goes along with this week's WNL is friends-only. If you're looking from the outside, it might just be time for you to join the cool kids in the inner circle. Every time I see you lookin' my way Baby, baby, can't you hear my heartbeat? In the car or walking down the highway Baby, baby, can't you hear my heartbeat? When you move up...

Appropriate... In so many ways. Explanation to come one of these days. So in the meantime You'll be resting on my mind For the last time I will leave myself behind In the evening Raise a...I swear to God I tried Take a picture Write a letter to my love I was almost honest But I was almost honest 'Cause I was almost honest -Almost Honest Josh Kelley

I think about how it might have been We'd spend our days travelin' It's not that I don't understand you It's not that I don't want to be with you But you only wanted me The way you wanted...we tried And if one of us makes it big We can spill our regrets And talk about how the love never dies But you and I, you and I know the reason why -The Reason Why Rachael Yamagata

I was working at the firehouse the morning almost six years ago my mom called to say that she was heading to the doctor. She'd been having trouble with nausea and abdominal pain and was finally seeking...resumed. I had my mom back. I no longer felt as though I was living in a world separate from everyone else. Tonight, I can't help but wish that Alex had the opportunity to feel that very same way

It's a cool, warm morning on a January day And for the first time, I've got nothing to say So I slowly eat my breakfast as they talk about the game And I pray you might have spoken my name ...you to go So don't leave me... Don't leave me... Don't leave me... Maureen -"Maureen," Fred LeBlanc (Here's the link to the song if the embeded player doesn't load.)

Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountainside The summer's gone, and all the roses are dying It's you, it's you must go and I must bide But...will bend and tell me that you love me And I shall sleeep in peace until you come to me -Danny Boy Frederick Weatherly (Here's the link to the song if the embeded player doesn't load.)

...every time that song was played, my mom would tell the story of how it was always the last song of every dance she ever went to. Well, in the spirit of good instrumentals (this is the third in the WNL series), I give you the "last dance" of 2008. Happy New Year, kids. I sincerely hope that 2009 brings you more blessings than you can imagine. (Here's the link to the song if the embeded player...

When it comes to music for Christmas Eve, I found my favorite in the aisle of a K-Mart. To make me sound older than I am, I'll tell you that if you wanted Christmas music when I was growing up, you put... The everlasting Light The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight -Rector Phillips Brooks (Here's the link to the song if the embeded player doesn't load.)

When I was young and my brother even younger, he had a baseball coach who was 19 years old. I remember thinking at the time that 19 seemed like such a grown up age. The coach was out of high school and...do most every year I got drunk this Christmas, like I do most every year -Drunk This Christmas Paul Sanchez (Here's the link to the song if the embeded player doesn't load.)

A private college in a town not far north of here hosts an annual candlelight service of lessons & carols. It's loosely based on the Christmas Eve service famous at King's College in Cambridge, England...instant transition of calm that the carols and readings provided after the brief insanity of the trip. Besides, what good is a tradition if there isn't at least one interesting story to tell about it