Lake Arrowhead Resort and Spa has everything the family and I need for a memorable getaway. The place has a great lake-front location, a gourmet restaurant onsite, a game room for the kids, pool and jacuzzi, spa and fitness center, a bar and coffee house, its own private beach and much more. All we had to do on a recent visit to the resort was park the car, check into a comfortable room and let the fun begin.

In our first installment of Owners and Pets, we covered Presidents and Pets: A T-Boy Odyssey Into Why They Loved One Another. Part I ended with a request to our friends, families and readers to consider sending us photographs of their own sacred pets, including those who had passed away, but will never be forgotten. This should help others to understand; when our pets love us, we tend to love them back. I've noticed in cinema, when male and female actors sign a contract to play in a film, they specify things that their character will never do.

Welcome to Savannah, Georgia's Prohibition Museum, the only museum of its kind in the country, where you don't just learn about prohibition, you actually re-live it. The visit is only one of the many enticing excursions aboard American Cruise Lines Intra-Coastal Waterway Cruise from Amelia Island, FL to Charleston, SC - also the only cruise of its kind in the country.

I find it hard to believe it's been three years since we lost James Harman. That's probably because his music is still on such a high rotation across all my playlists. So imagine my delight when friend, Nathan James walked over and handed me a brand new James Harman CD from Electro-Fi Records. The disc entitled, 'Didn't We Have Some Fun Sometime' features twelve fresh tracks all written by the man himself; James Harman. The recordings were captured online during pandemic 'live streams' or in studio recording sessions at Nathan's Sacred Cat Studios in Oceanside then produced and mastered in his new digs in Mountain Center.

In A T-Boy Journey into the Curious Case of Dark Nursery Rhymes – we took you into the world of joyful children’s nursery rhymes. But, when we looked deeply into their core, many of the soothing melodies and their haunting rhyming schemes, are bleak, sinister and deathly macabre. In Part II, our journey continues with more of the same, but found others that might have a deep effect when you sleep: Three Blind Mice, later adapted as a calypso version in James Bond film; Jack and Jill, not the power couple we had thought; The Real-Life Story of Humpty Dumpty and the English Civil War; Rub-a-Dub-Dub and how we might find that we are not as a clean as we thought; and we close with Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater which leads us to an Audrey Hart recipe for a delicious Thanksgiving pie.

In the last T-Boy article, The Film Soundtracks in Our Lives, Part II – Traveling Boy, we covered the source of many of our favorite musical soundtracks in film. The titles ranged from Alfred Hitchcock & Bernard Herrmann's Psycho to Richard Lester & The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night. In Part II, we discuss the relationship between film director Francoise Truffaut and composer Maurice Jaubert in Le Chambre Verte,L’Histoire d’Adèle, L’Homme qui aimait les femmes and Argent de poche; Jaubert’s first piano prize; banned films during the Nazi occupation of France, saved by Henri Langlois et la Cinémathèque française; Maurice Ravel as Jaubert’s best man at his wedding; and La Nouvelle Vague and the politique des auteurs.

I looked tentatively at the load of shrimp, blue crabs, gar, sea trout and other nameless denizens of the deep as they were dropped into the boat. I volunteered to hold one even more tentatively -- much more tentatively. But then I was making eye contact with a very cute sting ray and I'm pretty sure we had a moment.

Many of America's presidents have found friendship and solace in their pets. It's a tradition that goes all the way back to founding father, President George Washington, the founding father who also bred foxhounds. As of today, 46 U.S. Presidents have had pets while they resided in the White House. And, like many of us today, the pets became part of their families, offering courage, patience, forgiveness, unconditional love and comfort, particularly during stressful periods for president in office.

In this T-Boy article, please consider it to be an invitation to join me on a personal journey in search of the source of many of the cinema's most popular musical soundtracks. I've tried to make the categories specific, where the composer worked with the director before the film was shot, or used a pre-existing composition after the movie was in the can. Categories also include the innovation of using songs in films that have not been done before. I hope this makes sense once you see the line-up of film soundtracks on the list, where you'll also notice that there are many others not included which would make the list too long - so here's a few below:

The next T-Boy writers' poll is devoted to THE LAST PLACE in the world where you would NEVER want to visit, or revisit. The instructions were simple: it could be a nation, state, region or province, a city or town, or a place; like that fisherman's bar in Valparaiso, where I was once thrown out of for expressing my distaste of the Chilean dictator, Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte.