Honey I'm Home

I reconnected with my band teacher from Grade School... He was encouraging and gave me great advice. One day I was doodling around playing pop songs on my Sax after band rehearsal. I was playing over in the corner and he heard me. I thought I was gonna get in trouble because I was not practicing Band Songs. He listened for a minute and finally said "hey, you're pretty good" and he wrote the name Stan Getz on a piece of paper and handed it to me. He said listen to this Sax Player. I did and was so inspired that I went ahead and ended up playing professionally for about 10 years. Dr. Paul Rosene is his name. He is now 92 and we've stayed in touch all these many years. Last year he lost his wife of 62 years and was devastated by this loss... so after talking to him a number of times and even visiting him in Florida I said to him, Paul, a good part of your career has been in helping and healing people through music. How about we come full circle and write a song that might help people through their loss of a loved one... like you're going through now. He was hesitant not having written lyrics before and most of his music career was bringing the compositions of others into performance venues... So I said, I'll write the music and lyrics but I want you to think about what goes through your mind each day without Doris. He said "well I'll think about it but one thing I do still do each day is when I come in the door I still say "honey, I'm Home"... and right there he gave me what the title was to be... This song came out of our conversations and is dedicated to Doris Rosene his dear wife of 62 years. This is the piece I wrote with Paul Rosene... my old music teacher... he's 92 and just lost his wife Doris... after 62 years of marriage...