“In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law, / And argued each case with my wife; / And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw / Has lasted the rest of my life.”

That little snippet of doggerel is from Lewis Carroll, the guy who wrote “Alice in Wonderland.” I’m not much of a Lewis Carroll guy. Leo Carrillo had more influence on my life than Lewis Carroll, and that wasn’t much.[1]