While the lyrics may lament the singer’s tendency to “lose myself once in a while” or “fall to my knees and cry,” it is the music that finally finds the light.

While the easy way is fine most of the time, you might want to try the more difficult path every once in a while to learn how to improve your process.

“Once in a While” is fashioned in the moody style of Sinatra’s signature albums. “I love the ballad album, the rich, melancholy songs,” MacFarlane says.

Once in a while, you will hear a sermon that sticks with you. I heard one at a grandparents Mass at a high school in Chicago a few years ago and the priest told us — ordered us — not to ...