As the guy at Starbucks took my money I noticed the tattoo of three squares on his inner forearm, like three diamonds and asked if it meant something. He said […]

Student wrote this song and performed it in class: “I hate myself, I really do. Disappointed and worse than you. I am an impotent witness to all my failings. The […]

There was a discussion in class about musicians playing the same material over and over vs. those who reach new musical spaces by avoiding what they already know. One person […]

I get a little insomnia sometimes, when something or somethings are stuck in my mind and letting them go doesn’t seem possible. It’s a combo of stress over business and […]

Twenty-five years ago Mendelson Joe gave me a guitar, a Guild. It was small, he said it would be perfect for me, it has been. I didn’t have any interest […]

Joe had a great dislike of God believers, religious preachers, though he did believe in the Earth. I think he might have considered the Earth as God. Frankly, doesn’t everything […]

Apparently if an ant is removed from the colony it doesn’t live very long, not nearly as long as if it stays in it. It is like they are one […]

I didn’t collect things when I met him. I remember answering when he asked if would like a painting, by saying I tried living without accumulating stuff. He really wanted […]

It was really nice meeting you yesterday. I think I found my answers.If music is not associated with stability why is it the one of the oldest art forms that […]

I went through a tough time twenty years ago following a break up and I was depressed and miserable and alone and isolated, 45 minutes past Hamilton, in the middle […]