Soon the 2012 Olympics will end, and the games of life as we know it will continue. Here are five things I love right now that may help fill up all of our lives in between the Closing Ceremonies and the raging amusement parks of the Conventions.

One of the world's greatest singer-songwriters has just begun a new tour of the world. And happily, this tour is called "Breakfast in America," not only cementing his reputation with that much-adored album, but beginning, indeed, here in America.

Though you may not be aware of it, you are almost certainly familiar with Roger Hodgson and his body of work too. For a decade and a half he served as one of two main songwriters and vocalists who founded Supertramp.