I have been behind the counter at a record store every Christmas since 1980 and feel like that’s where I belong.

There are many aspects to running a store that feel so natural to me and I thought I would list a few:

• Being able to help people find the music they are looking for and that sometimes they are even comfortable enough to sing the thing that’s in their head
• Sharing new and old music with customers and bonding with people with a common passion for an artist or style
• While looking at a collection of records I can get to know a little about the people who, throughout their lives put together these little pieces of time as their musical tastes evolved and went in different directions becoming part of an ever-changing life puzzle

The people who have come into my life as a result.

It’s music