Playing with the early days of the web

The year was probably 1996.  The internet was young – really young.  There was no google, but instead, a smattering of funky search engines that were primitive by today’s standards.  I was in the midst of teaching myself how to use musical sequencing software and recording software, also really primitive at the time… but the […]

Happiness Doubled By Wonder

This lovely quote kept coming to mind this evening;  gratitude truly does make every day a new adventure.   I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is Happiness Doubled by Wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton

Expanding your limitless self…

Perhaps a year ago I had a dream in which I was telling some friends that I was the “family archivist.”  And when I awoke I thought, “that’s ridiculous, I’m not the family archivist!”  But you know how I am with dreams… I listen. My mother had always wanted me to work on our family […]

Song Drought

Wow. I have no songs right now… no lyrics.  It’s weird.  And terrible.  I miss them. I had moved into writing some visionary lyrics and melodies, snippets of songs surprising me when I least expected them…more spacy songs, more poetry, more beauty.  Then came the coup of November 2018. But now, nothing — except a […]

“Arriving” Turned out to be wonderful…

..For an entirely different reason than first intended.  And now it makes sense. Usually I don’t tell many personal stories. I’m just not one of those people whose facebook feed shows a bunch of photos of  my latest meals or family, or personal posts about everyday life. But I want to share something that happened […]

Back in the Studio

I’m so excited to get some time off and just enjoying being in the studio.  So many tunes have been waiting to be finished, some are mixed but not mastered, others still need some overdubs…

Politics…

Most of you who know me, (and especially if you follow me on twitter), you know that I’m acutely aware of politics. Politics is a challenging field, because of the obvious ego/greed base of most of the players in that particular game.  And frankly, it’s exhausting to pay attention to it, much less be involved. […]

Riding the Wheel (again)

This fall is/was amazing, as we wound down the last shows and are taking the winter off.  I’m excited to spend the time nurturing creativity… and tucking away the garden for the year.  Next up will be more recordings.  Yay!  Sometimes the gigs keep us out of writing mode, and especially out of recording mode, […]