To coin a familiar term, the “gateway” to the September 2018 Concert Party appears to have been a portal through which my recent songwriting productivity resurged. I began to compose and finish song ideas that had been floating around, and in some cases...
Think about all of the challenges that you have faced, watched family and friends go though, and humanity endure. We look back to youth and for a fleeting instance it seems like it was lighter and more in our own control. Age carries with it the wisdom, if we choose...
Ripped from the front page of my love life… quite some time ago, thankfully. True confessions ladies, right here, right now; we’ve all known this one! A blessing and a curse, which I have come to consider a “Good Luck Charm” in preparation for...
Photo by Dianna Manley Famous Last Words… oh, how they leave their mark on the psyche. In the broadest of pictures, this is the context for this tune. A goodbye “tag line” said to a close friend of 40 plus years that has taken on a life of its own....
Rituals. It is only now that I understand that home is where, no matter the location, you bring yourself and your rituals to live the life you have created. I’ve spent half of my life on the East Coast, after growing up in the vast space of a small town that was...
When I first launched this archive site, the effort was to preserve and share material and the making of the work in one place where it could all live as one. I became wildly interested in memoir, and aside from wanting to put my own out there, maybe encourage others...
