Where have I been since last June?

I was mostly working pretty hard just to get through living. I've been sick a lot. I have also been up in my head trying to sort out this whole music thing. Do…

Someone nudged me recently to do the entirety of The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron. Since I've been stalled out for 6-7 months I thought that would be a lovely way to unstuck myself.

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A few weeks ago I went to Brooklyn for a week of vacation. I promised myself I'd unplug so I could hear what my own thoughts were without all the noise. While there, the entire American political landscape changed….in my…

Dear Reader,

A little over a year ago I started this (mostly) monthly journal to log my path back to music-making, wherever it may lead. As I'm looking out my apartment windows open wide to a breezy mid-August evening, I…

Dear Reader,

Summer has arrived and it seems I have finally scaled back my schedule so that I truly have blank time for whatever comes up.

In the empty hours what has surfaced are lazy hours rummaging through and organizing…

Hello. Thank you for reading this post. I wanted to share some news about my bassist of over 20 years, former life partner, and now closest friend. Randall Venturini is facing a cancer diagnosis and treatment. It's a rare b-cell…

I'm playing my first venue show since early March 2020. I'm only doing this because of Joni. 

Let me explain. I imagine when Shakespeare was alive someone was sure to think, “I live in the time of Shakespeare.” I find…

Dear Reader,

The grind of living pulverizes new sprouts into a mush, yet I am beginning to write to rescue what I can and maybe make some sense of the past few years. Right now, I'm sitting in a house…