Working on the podcast I hope to find a future home for. My friend Mani said don’t pitch it, just make 4 or 5 episodes that show it works. I […]

Hi Bob, A buddy of mine, whose daughter was in one of your classes at Western, passed your book on to me. Thanks for an enjoyable and thoughtful read. I meet with […]

I picked up Salmon Rushdie’s latest book Victory City. It sat there a week while I did other things and sometimes looked at it and thought it probably isn’t going […]

José: I am depressed about me.Marcia: How can that be?José: What do you mean how can that be? I failed at being a certain way. It brings me down plus […]

It is a thing of beauty to turn on Youtube the day after Willie Nelson turned 90 and watch Neil Young and Stephen Stills play For What It’s Worth at […]

There was a woman who attended Fat Albert’s open stage who was usually an audience member though at least one time she tried to play. I wasn’t there that night […]

I was asked to teach a course in the fall at Western in a department with the word creative in its name. Surprisingly they asked me what I would imagine […]

The thing I love about watching Youtube, anything riveting or compelling, is being interrupted by gormless commercials. Could there be more convincing evidence that, “as above so below” should actually […]

Writing everyday about anything under the sun, is the directive for the student journals in the song writing course. One offered this pensive piece “over and over I experience the […]

At the conference I asked an acquaintance from Iran how things were going. He told me he trained a group of Canadians to play music he composed for the revolution. […]