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As The Lake Churns: Mike, Sadie & Their Space

This song was inspired one Sunday morning as I was making breakfast for my daughter Sadie and me. As a single Dad I was looking forward to a leisurely Sunday with my daughter when we could talk about things -- just 'things'--just bits and pieces of our lives, share some thoughts. Halfway through the pancakes her cellphone began grabbing her snatching her away from my precious Sunday morning parenting. After wrestling her for the phone and trying to do the the father-thing as well as strongly displaying my dissapointment, I thought I would try to put my frustration into words and song -- Mike Wagoner/As The Lake Churns.

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Question (from Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns): " How is your space between you, your kids and text messages...?"



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.